Marine Hotel

The Marine Hotel, built around 1850, is located on a corner site at the junction of The Esplanade and George Street. This three-storey building features painted brick with a stuccoed ground floor set on a plinth, and it has rusticated quoins. The low-pitched hipped slate roof has a curved round corner and bracketed eaves.

On the second floor, there is a moulded sill course, with four windows facing The Esplanade, including an inset curved corner bay with one window, and one additional window on George Street. The second-floor windows extend into a frieze. The tripartite windows in the curved corner bay have first-floor windows that also reach into the frieze, with the first-floor window featuring panelled pilasters between the lights. All windows are recessed sash with later glazing bars and chamfered edges to the reveals.

The first-floor facade facing The Esplanade has bay windows with three lights, also sash with later glazing bars, and chamfered edges to the frames, topped with cornices and shallow leaded roofs. The ground floor on the east side is rusticated, featuring a frieze and moulded cornice. It has three round-headed plate glass windows in shallow arched recesses, with the center window flanked by colonettes. There is a panelled and glazed door in a similar shallow arched recess with a semi-circular fanlight above.

To the west, an adjoining arcaded section projects slightly and has three broad panelled pilasters supporting a frieze and a heavy raised modillion cornice that breaks forward over them. The arcade features panelled piers and moulded arches, containing two round-headed windows and two round-headed doorways with semi-circular fanlights facing The Esplanade. The curved corner section has two smaller arched windows flanking a round-headed doorway with a fanlight. The bay facing George Street mirrors the rustication of the eastern section on The Esplanade, with a similar door in an arched recess.

Nos 15 to 20, which are consecutive, form a group.