9-12, Marine Terrace

A row of four houses forming part of a larger terrace, likely built around 1847-50. The houses are constructed of painted stucco with a slate roof and stuccoed chimneys, and feature a cast-iron verandah. They are arranged as two pairs, each with doorways on the left and right sides, and are of a double-depth plan with rear extensions.

The exterior is two storeys high, with each pair featuring five first-floor windows, the central window of each pair being blind. Painted quoins are present to the left of number 9, and a painted pilaster to the right of number 12. A continuous sill band and projecting eaves with bracketed supports and a moulded gutter cornice run along the top. At ground level, each pair has a wide doorway with flanking windows, a panelled door with a three-pane overlight (except number 11, which has four panes), and a large canted bay window with four-paned sashed glazing, except for number 12, which has six tall panes in each leaf. The first floor windows have shouldered architraves, with the exception of the window to the left of number 11, which is a canted oriel, and numbers 12, which has two similar oriels with dentilled cornices. Most windows are four-paned sashed, although those at number 9 are without glazing bars. Numbers 9 and 10 have various skylights, and numbers 11 and 12 each have a pair of small, round-headed dormers. The chimneys have cornices on the front slopes. The attached verandah is consistent in design across the row, with four bays to each house, featuring open-work standards, scrolled brackets, an elaborate frieze, and delicate hooped railings with dogbars at number 12.

The interiors have not been inspected. The buildings form a group with numbers 6, 7 and 8 to the left, and number 13 to the right. Together with the buildings in Adelaide Terrace, Bath Street, Beach Lawn and Marine Crescent, these form a group within the Waterloo Conservation Area of Crosby.