[1] The building is mainly brick-built, with blue stone diapering and a plain tiled roof and Dutch-style gables above the outer and central bay windows.

Subsequent meetings rotated between the town halls before the council decided to permanently locate itself in Stoke.

When a lease expired in 1931, the LMS took the management of the hotel into its own hands and undertook an extensive refurbishment of the building.

[1] The hotel has been expanded several times during its history, including additional buildings to the rear, in order to provide more bedrooms and kitchen space.

Winton Square is described as the UK's only piece of town planning undertaken by railway company specifically to set off a station.