Lime Street Chambers (former North Western Hotel)

Opened 1871
Grade II

The 330-room hotel was designed by Alfred Waterhouse to serve passengers using Lime Street Station, the present terminus discussed above, for which it provides a monumental stone façade. 

Its French renaissance theme, continued into the grand entrance hall and former buffet of the interior, is the only design at odds with the classical theme used elsewhere in the area but its scale and symmetry create a strong backdrop to the fine assembly of civic buildings. 

Visitors to the City and those travelling beyond by ship were afforded views from it across St George's Plateau and William Brown Street. It is now a student hall of residence.