Numbers 137 And 138 And 139 And Attached Railings

Numbers 137, 138, and 139 Marine Parade are a group of three terraced houses dating to around 1825. They were likely designed by Amon Wilds and Charles Augustin Busby. The houses are constructed of stucco, with a roof hidden behind a parapet. Number 139 has a 20th-century addition of an extra storey above the parapet. Each house has four storeys and an attic over a half basement, and three windows. The front of each property is treated as a full-height, nearly full-width segmental bay. Round-arched entrances, with fanlights, lead to paired doorways for numbers 137 and 138, and a separate entrance to the left party wall for number 139. Each entrance is set under a shallow porch with Tuscan pilasters and an entablature. The ground floor has banded rustication, with two windows to either side of the entrance featuring keyed lintels. All windows are flat-arched with projecting sills, and the first floor and above have architraves. Some original sash windows with margin lights remain; the second-floor windows of numbers 137 and 138 have a 4x4 pane arrangement, the third-floor windows of number 137 are 2x4, with the top sashes of two panes to the rest, and the attic windows of number 137 are 2x2, with the top sash of two panes to the right-hand window in number 138 and to the left- and right-hand windows of number 139. A projecting cornice separates the third floor from the attic. Each house incorporates a first-floor balcony; numbers 138 and 139 have cast-iron brackets and railings. The party walls have chimney stacks. The interior was not inspected. Railings are present to the stairs and areas. Numbers 137-140 Marine Parade, along with Bristol Court (numbers 141, 142 and 143) and Eastern Terrace, form a group.