Abandoned Birkenhead Central Hotel

June 07, 2026

Abandoned Birkenhead Central Hotel - Night Gallery

Abandoned Birkenhead Central Hotel - Night Gallery

First built in 1939, the Birkenhead Central Hotel has been more than a hotel, with an Irish bar called Patrick .. 's bar with live music that once took place each Sunday night, there was also a restaurant in the basement and an explore down there reveals the commercial kitchen with the cooker and other equipment left abandoned for now over 12 years. The tables and chairs of the restaurant have now long gone and what is left is a hollow, eerie chamber but there are some remnants along the walls that point out what it once was.

Evidence online dates its abandonment to April 2014 and since then alongside the natural decay has also been the deliberate arson damage to the building which has devastated in particular the former Irish bar and the adjoining house on Clifton Crescent, an explore revealed that a door from the Central Hotel's lobby directly connected to it on the ground floor, and also upstairs on the first floor a short corridoor led to the upstairs part. But arson attacks in 2016 and 2019 have devastated what remains of it, the Irish bar and some parts of the core Central Hotel.

Central Hotel - Explore #13

Now boarded up in the back alley, climbing over the back wall to creep into the eerie Birkenhead Central Hotel at 2am. Abandoned since 2014 and partially fire damaged here's some pictures of what I saw in there.

Ground Floor - Lobby

Ground Floor

This was once the back door into a patio and a back garden, now the easiest way out is through a back window which has long ceased to have any actual glass in it.

Former Ladies Toilets

The former ladies toilets have been quite standardly vandalised.

There's even fire damage in the room I entered the hotel in, one of two ways in at the moment. Both of which now require you to climb over the back wall. That shiny looking thing I didn't even notice at the time, was it something paranormal?

This toilet in the former ladies loos has been vandalised to perfection, just the cistern remaining and some vaguely feminine looking debri with the pink colour. I spy with my little eye where the toilet seat is, spotted it yet?

Now boarded up in the back alley, climbing over the back wall to creep into the eerie Birkenhead Central Hotel at 2am. Abandoned since 2014 and partially fire damaged here's some pictures of what I saw in there.

First Floor

One of the eeriest rooms in Birkenhead Central Hotel (and that takes some doing!) lies just through that door. Was it some sort of utility room, blackened surfaces so covered in gunk that you could hardly tell if they were even some sort of sink or washboard for cleaning etc at the Hotel, it looks like where Gollum slithered about in the hovel under the Misty Mountains where he guarded The One Ring. The narrow stairs were likely a little creepy before this place was abandoned and heavily fire scorched

The trolley adds to the aesthetic for what might just about be the eeriest room of Central Hotel (and it has a lot of competition!
Come up the claustrophobically narrow stairs from the little corridor that protrudes from the remains of the former Irish bar and if you go left this is the first "experience" that the first floor will offer you.

Going up the stairs from the lobby and you will be greeted by this, a corridoor that seems to stretch forever into the abyss, even a relatively powerful flashlight fails to illuminate it the end of it whatsoever but if it did you would see the Central Hotel's grimy bathrooms that feature at the end of each upper floor. And I couldn't leave those unexplored could I?

Clifton Crescent - Ruined Terrace

Second Floor

The forlorn corridoor here has some of the most creative graffiti, including a complaint that someone has come in and wrecked something. The overall colour scheme seems to be blue and green for the second floor, the blue paint on the stairs,and the grafitti is in blue and green!

You are not done yet, there is still one eerie floor to go!

That one didn't go unchallenged!

A former plant or nature creeping inside?

Third Floor (Top Floor)

Those were hotel rooms once, with a double bed, a TV, a little chocolate under the pillow., Imagine you were in 1997 and suddenly jolted forward in time to 2026 and woke up to this!

Basement

An explore down here reveals the commercial kitchen with the cooker and other equipment left abandoned for now over 12 years. The tables and chairs of the restaurant have now long gone and what is left is a hollow, eerie chamber but there are some remnants along the walls that point out what it once was. The narrow and quite claustrophobic feeling corridoors reveal it to be quite an extensive part of the hotel, with one room containing a still abandoned chest freezer,

a big chest freezer has been left down here.

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Basement - Barrel Room

Basement - Restaurant

Climbing The Wall into the Back Garden

Views of Birkenhead from the top floor

This is what you can see from the top floor windows.

looking towards Grange Road and the shopping streets. The immaxculate looking garden of the church next door is in sharp contrast to the derelict Central Hotel and Clifton Crescent located in such close proximity to it.