Marine Hotel

THE ESPLANADE 1. 1577 No 15 SZ 5992 2/191 (Marine Hotel)

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1. Circa 1850. Corner site with George Street. Three storeys painted brick and stuccoed ground floor on plinth. Rusticated quoins. Low pitch hipped slate roof, curved round corner, bracketed eaves. Second floor moulded sill course. Four windows to Esplanade, inset curved corner bay of one window and one window to George Street. The second floor windows reach up into frieze. Tripartite windows to curved corner bay, the first floor windows reach up into frieze. Tripartite windows to curved corner bay, the first floor one with panelled pilasters between lights. All recessed, sash, later glazing bars, chamfered edges to reveals. First floor Esplanade front has bay windows of three lights, sash, later glazing bars, chamfered edges to frames, cornices and shallow leaded roofs. Ground floor East rusticated with frieze and moulded cornice. Three round headed plate glass windows in shallow arched recesses, the centre one with the colonettes flanking. Panelled and glazed door in similar shallow arched recess with semi-circular fanlight. The adjoining arcaded section to West project slightly and has three broad panelled pilasters supporting frieze and heavy raised modillion cornice which breaks forward over them. The arcade has panelled piers and moulded arches. It contains two round headed windows, and two round headed doorways with semi-circular fanlights to the Esplanade. The curved corner section has two smaller arched windows flanking a round headed doorway with fanlight. The bay facing George Street repeats the rustication of the Eastern section on the Esplanade with a similar door in arched recess.

Nos 15 to 20 (consec) form a group.

Listing NGR: SZ5941792855