Numbers 80-83 And Attached Railings

Numbers 80-83 and their attached railings are a group of four terraced houses dating from circa 1825, designed by Amon Wilds and Charles Augustin Busby. The houses are constructed of stucco, with the original roofs obscured by parapets.

The architectural design is of four storeys over a basement, with three windows to each house. Each unit is treated as a full-height, full-width segmental bay, and the ground and first floors are rusticated. A band serves as an entablature between the first and second floors. A second-floor sill band is ornamented with a key pattern and forms the base for a giant, three-bay arcade applied to the second and third floors. This arcade features fluted piers with leaf capitals, and an arcade cornice interrupted by attic windows. A cornice and parapet complete the exterior.

Steps lead to a round-arched entry, with a fanlight, situated within the right-hand ground floor segment of each bay. Each entry is sheltered by a prostyle porch consisting of two fluted Doric columns, an entablature, and a blocking course. The porches of numbers 80 and 81 are currently undergoing restoration. Ground-floor balconies are present, featuring cast-iron railings and brackets. A continuous first-floor balcony is found running from the entry porch of number 81 to the entry of number 82; the remaining section of the porch between numbers 81 and 80 appears to have been removed during ongoing work. Number 82 also possesses a cast-iron railing above the entry porch and a second-floor balcony of cast-iron. All windows are flat-arched, with semicircular tympana above those in the attic. Some original sash windows remain in the second and third floors of each house. Chimney stacks are shared between party walls.

The interior of the houses has not been inspected.

The railings to the stairs and areas are original. Numbers 80-83, together with numbers 68, 69, and 73-89 Marine Parade, and numbers 1-14 Royal Crescent, form a group. Numbers 82 and 83 were initially listed on 13th October 1952.