The ceiling decoration depends largely on trompe l’oeil techniques, said to be in “the Italian style”. It includes illusionistic ceiling roses and features cupids holding a shield on which was painted Mr Greenlaw’s crest. The walls were broken up into the fashionable frieze, filing and dado zones. The frieze is decorated with armorini engaged in photography, gold mining, shifting the wool clip, cricket and football. The filling section is decorated with a stencilled design of horse chestnut leaves simulating silk damask. Geometric stencils and gilding feature in the dado beneath.

The hall was originally divided by heavy chenille curtains and heavily furnished in oak including a large gothic inspired oak settle, a pair of Nubian figures supporting candelabrums and a pair of bronze Egyptian dancing girls supporting gas burners and globes and a variety of flower stands and jardinieres filled with palms as well as an assortment other furnishings including stuffed birds behind glass.

The entrance hall

Detail of the cornice work