102, 103 AND 104, MARINE PARADE

This is a group of three terraced houses, numbered 102, 103, and 104, on Marine Parade, Brighton. They were likely built around 1825 and are probably the work of Amon Wilds and Charles Augustin Busby.

The houses are four storeys high with a basement, each featuring three windows. They are constructed of stucco, with the roof hidden behind a parapet. A camber-arched entry is located on the left return of number 102, while round-arched entries are positioned at the party and end walls of the main elevations for numbers 103 and 104. The entry to number 102 includes an overlight with decorative glazing. The ground floor has banded rustication. Each elevation is designed as a full-height, nearly full-width segmental bay with flat-arched windows. Fluted Ionic pilasters rise from the first to the third floors between each bay and at the corners, topped by an entablature and parapet. A two-storey porch spans the group, supported by cast-iron Tuscan columns on high socles on the ground floor and featuring a glazed solarium on the first floor and a balcony on the second, all enclosed by cast-iron railings. The ground floor of the left return has rustication with voussoirs and keystones to the camber-arched windows, and a giant Ionic pilastrade of three bays. Stacks are located on the end and party walls.

The interior was not inspected. The railings to the entries, ground floor terraces, and porch areas are also original. A white plaque next to the entry to number 103 commemorates Sir Herbert Garden, JP, Alderman and Freeman, and Founder of Greater Brighton, who was born in 1867 and died in 1941.