The Paragon Private Hotel

The Paragon Private Hotel is the left house of a pair of houses, now functioning as a hotel and a house. The building features a painted stucco front and stands three stories tall with an attic, comprising four bays. The two middle bays have windows that are grouped closely together. It has a slate roof with brick end stacks, a modillion cornice with a frieze below, and a parapet above. The corners have long and short raised quoins, and there is a cast-iron rainwater head below the cornice that is dated 1904.

The sash windows are of an unusual design, featuring plate glass with a double row of tiny panes in the upper part of the top sash, where the upper row panes are arch-headed. There are four dormers with sash windows, timber bargeboards, and finials. On the upper two floors, the windows are segmental-headed with surrounds and keystones, with the middle two being narrower. On the first floor, the middle two windows are full-length French windows, while the outer ones are very wide tripartite sashes. The ground floor has two timber canted bay windows with similar sashes and paired center doors that have elliptical-arched heads. The doors are accessed via a broad flight of steps.

The Paragon Hotel features a half-glazed door with leaded colored glass and side lights. The moulded doorframes have dentil cornices and a small pedimented panel above. There is a fine two-storey timber veranda with a sloping roof that reaches up to the second-floor sills. The veranda has matching timber area railings on each side of the entrance steps and is five bays wide on the first floor, with a wider center bay. It has chamfered posts with capitals and curved eaves brackets. The ground floor has two narrow bays corresponding to the two doorways and a very broad bay on each side, all with similar posts and curved brackets. The railings at both levels have turned balusters between horizontal rails just below the handrail and just above the floor level.

The west end facing St Mary's Street has similar sash windows. Inside, there are inner lobbies with glazed screens and a patterned tile floor.