The Marine Hotel

The Marine Hotel is an early to mid-19th century terraced house, now operating as a hotel. The stucco building is four storeys high over a basement. The main elevation is divided into two full-height bays, one near the corner with a semicircular plan and the other segmental. Each bay has three windows. All windows are flat arched, with projecting sills to all but those on the first floor of the bays. The ground floor is treated as banded and chamfered rustication, while the first floor has floor-to-ceiling windows, originally accompanied by balconies or verandahs. Storey bands mark the divisions between the first and second, and second and third floors. A projecting cornice is present at the top of the semicircular bay, and the segmental bay has a complete entablature. The entrance is located on the return, designed as a symmetrical composition with a five-window range, leading to a 20th-century flat-arched entrance. The porch is supported by mid to late 19th century cast-iron stanchions. A recessed panel is situated between the first and second floors in the entrance range. Flanking the three central windows are shallow, rectangular, full-height bays topped by pediments, with a continuous parapet above. The ground and first floors of these end bays feature a single round-arched recess; the recess on the left is filled with a two-storey segmental bay, while the recess on the right is filled with one Venetian window to each floor, the side openings blocked. The interior was not inspected.