Washington Hotel, East Parade

The Washington Hotel is a two-story corner building dating from the 18th century, situated on East Parade. The front elevation, facing East Parade, is stuccoed and consists of seven bays. It features a cornice with modillions and a parapet, with a panelled band running along the facade. The ground floor is rusticated and has a banded plinth. The projecting end bays have a transomed two-light window on the first floor and a three-light three-centred transom window on the ground floor; the right-hand ground floor window has been altered into a doorway. Each first-floor window is accompanied by a small corbelled balcony with a balustraded parapet featuring turned balusters, all topped with an architrave, entablature, triangular pediment, and flanking scrolls. The five bays in between have a first-floor loggia of five semi-circular-headed arches supported by Ionic columns, each bay having its own balustraded parapet. The ground floor of this section has five three-centred openings, the central one being a doorway. The convex corner bay has a dome and weather vane; its first floor features a recessed window flanked by paired Ionic columns, while the ground floor has an elliptical-headed doorway also flanked by paired Ionic columns. The return elevation on the right has a two-light transom window above and a semi-elliptical window below, mirroring the front facade. A lower, two-story wing extends to the right, with nine windows, a central pediment, a tripartite window above the central doorway, three windows on each side, and an additional window at each end, recessed. The rear elevation has six windows in a similar style.