The first floor is given up entirely to a large grill and dining-room

The first floor is given up entirely to a large grill and dining-room, which occupies the whole of one frontage and would be used principally by lunchers and diners, and to a coffee-room for the service of meals for those using the place as an hotel, there being a combined servery and still-room for supply- ing each of these, the former across the landing of the back stairs, and the latter through a servery hatch. The main staircase does not proceed above this floor, where it is replaced by a more private inner stair for hotel use, leading up to the second floor, on which is a smoking lounge for hotel residents as well as a number of bedrooms and a rather curiously placed bathroom. On the second floor the back stairs are changed in position on account of a certain portion not being carried up farther. The third floor is almost identical, the smoking lounge being replaced by an additional bedroom, and the hotel staircase going up no farther. The method of lighting this staircase does not appear on the illustrated plans, but would be seen if the third-floor plan were illustrated. There is a good deal of heavy brickwork on these upper floors, particularly in the chimneys, which has to be carried by girders, but this presents no difficulty if modern steel construction be adopted. The chimneys are generally arranged so as to group the flues and to permit of beds being placed comfortably in the rooms.

There are yet two more storeys, the fourth and fifth, and the kitchens occur on the fourth floor, being served for most purposes by the large lifts, while themselves serving the various dining-rooms and bars by means of the smaller lifts. The large lift is carried right from bottom to top of the building from sub-basement to the fifth floor ; while the smaller lifts commence on the ground-floor level and go up to the fourth floor only. A large storeroom is interposed between the kitchen and the staircase corridor, a scullery also serving somewhat in the same way to cut off the smell of the cooking from the bedrooms on this floor. At this level the angle takes a circular form, which is more emphasised again on the fifth floor, where the circle is complete, the room being used as a sleeping place for bar attendants ; for this top floor is naturally given up to the staff bedrooms and to a large larder above the kitchen a most sensible and airy position for such a room, where it would be possible to ventilate it thoroughly.