Located on a small hill, the red-brick building overlooks Preston railway station, on the West Coast Main Line, to its north-west and Miller Park and the River Ribble to its south-east.

In its heyday, the hotel was connected to the southern end of the main south-bound platform (the modern-day platform 4) at Preston station by a covered footbridge[1] Various pre-1923 objects from the hotel are in the National Railway Museum at York.

These include Mappin & Webb cutlery and Elkington & Co. tableware and candlesticks, the latter marked with the initials "P.P."

[4] The historic hotel structure was used for many decades as an office building for the Lancashire County Council, along with an adjoining tower block, constructed in the 1960s.

In 2020, the tower block was demolished as part of a plan by the Council to restore the hotel to operation.