162, Marine Parade

No. 162 Marine Parade is a terraced house built in the early 19th century. It features a stucco exterior and has a roof that is obscured by a blocking course. The building stands three storeys tall with an attic over a basement and has a two-window range. The front wall extends forward compared to the adjacent terraces.

The entrance is flat-arched and located on the right side, with over- and sidelights. The lintel is decorated with voussoirs, and the door, which dates from the late 19th or early 20th century, has three panels topped by an elliptical light filled with glazing bars. The ground floor is designed with chamfered rustication that steps out to create rusticated Tuscan pilasters on either side of the entrance. There are also implied rusticated Tuscan pilasters indicated by floating capitals on the left side of the ground floor.

An entablature at the ground floor ends at each party wall with a pair of console bracket stops. Quoin strips rise above these to the entablature and the blocking course above the attic. All windows from the first floor to the attic are segmental arched, featuring architraves with diamond rustication keystones. The architraves of the first-floor windows are eared and shouldered, with panelled spandrels below. Each second-floor window has projecting sills supported by a pair of corbels, and there is a cornice sill band above the attic windows. The sashes are of mid-19th century design, arranged in a 2 x 2 configuration.

The interior has not been inspected. Nos. 155-165 Marine Parade form a group with Nos. 1-17 Belgrave Place.