Marine Court

Marine Court is a service flat building incorporating shops, a car park and a restaurant, built in the late 1930s. The foundation stone was laid in 1936 and the building was completed in 1938, designed by Kenneth Dalgleish and Roger K Pullen. Its design, in a Cunard style, deliberately evoked the impression of a ship, intended to be "a building embodying the beautiful curves of a great ship – a vertical liner on land", inspired by the Queen Mary. Later 20th-century work has included refurbishment and the glazing-in of balconies.

The building is a steel-frame structure with external walls of 11 inch brick cavity, flat concrete roofs finished with tiles, hollow block floors, and reinforced concrete balcony fronts. Originally, Crittall metal casement windows were used; these have largely been replaced with uPVC and aluminium casements and horizontally sliding windows.

Marine Court is 14 stories high, reaching 170 feet from basement to rooftop, and incorporates underground car parking, twenty ground-floor shops, a two-storey restaurant at the east end of the first floor, and a promenade deck on the thirteenth floor. Four separate entrances, each with lifts and staircases, provide access.

All flats above the second floor have a southern aspect, a balcony, and a sea view. The ground floor has shopfronts, some retaining original black tiling and horizontally-glazed fanlights, and four entrances with uPVC doors and canopies decorated with a wave pattern. The first and second floors form a podium and contain 23 windows, now with sliding sashes. The east corner, formerly part of the restaurant, is rounded and features tall casement windows. The upper floors have balconies, many of which have been glazed in during the later 20th century. The west end is also curved, constructed with stock bricks. The rear elevation features concrete balconies separated by four enclosed staircases, along with an external staircase. Internally, original lifts and metal staircases remain, and some flats retain original built-in kitchen and bedroom units.