124, 125 AND 126, MARINE PARADE

The buildings at 124, 125, and 126 Marine Parade are a group of three terraced houses, likely dating to around 1827. They were probably designed by Amon Wilds and Charles Augustin Busby. The houses are constructed of stucco, with a roof hidden behind a blocking course.

The buildings are three storeys and an attic, with a basement. Each house has two windows, except for the return elevation of number 126, which has a four-window range. Stairs lead up to flat-arched entrances at numbers 124 and 125 – the former topped with an overlight, the latter with a fanlight. These entrances are sheltered by a prostyle porch with fluted Doric columns, an entablature, and a projecting cornice. Number 126 has a flat-arched entrance on its return, also under a prostyle porch with half-fluted Doric columns, an entablature with a key pattern frieze, and a low parapet with glazing above. The basement and ground floors of numbers 125 and 126 feature banded rustication, which is covered with cement on number 124. Each elevation is treated as a full-height, nearly full-width segmental bay. A continuous first-floor verandah stretches across all three houses, supported by cast-iron brackets and railings, and with a convex roof and valences to the eaves. All windows are flat arched, and those on the second and attic floors of number 124, as well as those on number 126, have architraves and projecting sills supported by pairs of corbels. A storey band is located between the second and attic floors. Number 126 is the most decorated of the three, with its cornice moulded as a projecting band. The return elevation to Marine Square of number 126 mirrors the window arrangements of the front, except that the windows in the first two window ranges are blocked. The third window range features a segmental bay with tripartite, flat-arched windows rising from the entry porch through the first and second floors to a half-domed roof. A full-height segmental bay with one flat-arched window on each floor is located in the fourth window range. Stack chimneys are located on the party and end walls.

The interior was not inspected during the listing process. The buildings have railings to the stairs and areas. Numbers 124, 125, and 126, together with numbers 111-119, 122-133, and 133A Marine Parade, and the entirety of Marine Square, form a significant group.