The Giltar Hotel and area railings

The Giltar Hotel, originally three separate houses, dates to the 18th century and is constructed of painted stucco with a slate roof. It has a basement and four storeys with an attic, presenting a two-window facade with a full-height stucco canted bay to the left and a single window above the front door to the right. The houses are subtly stepped back from the house on the right.

The windows are predominantly 4-pane sashes, with narrower 2-pane sashes flanking the canted bays. Dormers are recessed behind the parapet, featuring inset mouldings and rebated angles in sunk panels. The upper two floors have cambered-headed windows within moulded surrounds, while arched French windows open onto a continuous iron balcony on the first floor, featuring moulded arched heads, plain fanlights and pilaster sides. The ground floor exhibits channelled rustication and plain square-headed windows and a door. The first-floor balcony is supported by iron brackets and incorporates attractive, slightly Gothic iron railings reminiscent of earlier 19th-century designs. A four-panel door with an overlight is located on the left side, while the centre house has a 20th-century fixed glazed door with overlight. Basement windows are sash windows.

The right-hand bay of the right-hand house differs slightly, with a cambered-headed window opening onto the balcony at the first floor and a plain 4-pane sash, rather than a door, at ground floor level, which is not aligned with the others. A plaque on the right-end wall facing Picton Terrace reads "Ethelstone House, 7 Esplanade." Another section of the facade has stucco detailing with a 2-storey oriel on either side of a corniced doorcase featuring a 4-panel door with overlight. A 4-pane sash window is located on the ground floor to the right.

At the rear, a projecting stair tower is present for each of the original houses.

The area railings are notable for their fleur-de-lys heads, twisted stanchions, and larger fleur-de-lys heads.

Entry to the left house, formerly No 9, is through a glazed screen with top-lights and side-lights. The interior features elaborate plasterwork; the entrance lobby has a square ceiling with an egg-and-dart and leaf cornice, with a rosette at each corner. A similar ceiling and an elliptical arch with egg-and-dart moulding are located in the inner hall. The sitting room on the left has a similar ceiling with a large acanthus-leaf rose. A timber 19th-century fireplace, reused from elsewhere, is also present. The staircase has a bulbous newel, turned balusters, and scrolled tread ends. The middle house, formerly No 8, has a similar staircase at the rear. The plasterwork in the hall and stair hall is also elaborate, with acanthus modillions and undercut 4-petal flowers. One front room in the middle house has been combined with the entrance hall and possesses a cornice with rope-mould and clasped ball motifs, as well as a border with a lily scroll. The left house has undergone more significant alterations, including redecoration of the cornices and removal of the staircase. 20th-century plasterwork is found in two rooms now combined, with some elements copied from the originals.