3-028-633 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

New railway hotel at the London and North-Western Terminus, Lime-Street, Liverpool, 1870. 'The new hotel adjoining the London and North-Western terminus...immediately opposite St. George's Hall, is a stately building in the Renaissance style, 390 ft. long in front, and 110 ft. high; but its central towers rise to 160 ft. It has seven stories, containing 330 rooms, with the refreshment-rooms for the service of the station at the Lord Nelson-street end. Spacious dining-rooms, coffee-rooms, smoking-rooms, billiard-rooms, and other apartments, with the bar and offices, and with a grand entrance-hall, approached by nine stone steps, occupy the lower floor. On the first floor are the ladies' coffee-room and the library, with private sitting-rooms and bed-rooms. There are lifts, or hoists, for raising all luggage from the basement or ground floor to the upper floors. The building is of Caen stone, dressed with Stourton stone. The architect was Mr. Waterhouse. Messrs. Haigh and Co., of Liverpool, were the contractors'. The North Western Hotel was later converted to student accommodation. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.