Nos.4-10 Neville Crescent, and Hydro Hotel

Nos 4–10 Neville Crescent and Hydro Hotel

This terrace comprises a row of five individual properties (Nos 4–10), with the substantial Hydro Hotel adjoining. The five terraced properties are each three storeys with attic and basement.

No 4 presents a two-window front beneath a slate roof with two gabled dormers. A moulded eaves cornice with dentils, tile band and modillions runs across the facade. The second floor contains two segmental-headed sashes with moulded heads, flanking capitals and a stringcourse at cill level. The first floor left-hand bay features a storeyed bow window of four lights with columned mullions and rounded heads, topped with a tile band. The right-hand first floor bay holds a window of two rounded sash lights with flanking columns, entablature and a small rounded pediment in the centre. The ground floor is accessed by a flight of steps leading to a columned prostyle portico with entablature and triangular pediment, though the door is modern.

No 5 is similar to No 4, although the moulding on the porch pediment has been removed.

Nos 6, 7 and 8 form the Kensington Hotel. Nos 6 and 7 are similar to Nos 4 and 5, while No 8 is reversed left-to-right. The dormers feature unpainted brick gables, and porches with entablature and pediment remain at Nos 6 and 7, though it has been removed at No 8. Much of the glazing is modern, with modern doors throughout.

No 9, formerly the White Lodge Hotel, is similar to No 4 but reversed. It has largely modern glazing and dormers with unpainted brick gables. A storeyed bow window occupies the right-hand bay, paired first-floor window and doorway are in the left-hand bay, and the porch has been removed.

No 10, now part of the Hydro Hotel, resembles No 9 but features a flight of steps in the left-hand bay leading to a modern veranda and hotel entrance.

The Hydro Hotel forms a substantial extension with roughcast and slate roofs, sash glazing and complex massing. The principal corner block rises four storeys across four bays beneath a steeply pitched roof with dentil cornice. The third floor contains four paired two-light windows with pilasters and capitals. Four paired segmental-headed two-light windows sit on the second floor. Storeyed bow windows occupy each end bay on the first floor, while the two centre bays each feature windows of two rounded-headed lights with flanking columns, entablature and associated detailing matching Nos 4–10. A modern veranda and main entrance occupy the ground floor, with the veranda continuing across the whole north-east elevation and major part of the left return. The upper parts of the left return resemble the front elevation, though the second floor has single-light windows in the two centre bays and the first floor features a central bow window with paired windows in the outer bays.

To the rear (left) extends a three-storey, three-window block with three gabled dormers and paired windows as the front. Beyond this stands an advanced four-storey block with balustrade and paired windows, followed by a block with slate roof set back, then a lower block of four windows with hipped roof. A further block with hipped roof projects to the rear. To the right, fronted by a modern corridor, stands a single-storey block with hipped slate roof and pedimental gable facing the parade. On the side road, this block displays five windows, the central one having a pedimental gable.

On the Parade to the right of the corner block stands an asymmetrical block of four bays with later attics in Free Renaissance style. The attic storey comprises, from left: a pedimental gable of two bays with oculus and two paired windows; a two-storey gable with segmental pediment and three-light windows above which rises a turret with pinnacle; and a gable with pediment and tripartite window. A modillion eaves cornice runs below. The first and second floors feature paired windows in the first, second and fourth bays (ground floor examples having cornices), while the third bay has a single window on the second floor and a Venetian window on the first floor. Each bay has a bow window on the ground floor, with a continuous enclosed balcony before the first floor.

The entrance lobby displays Edwardian Baroque detailing. The grand restaurant features Art Nouveau detailing including columns, panelling and a coffered ceiling.