27-35, CENTRAL PARADE

A terrace of houses originally called Marine Terrace, built between 1830 and 1835, though appearing somewhat earlier. The terrace, numbers 27 to 35, is stuccoed with slate roofs and comprises three storeys and a semi-basement. Most of the houses have two windows fronting the street, while numbers 31, 32, and 35 have three. The windows are set within moulded architraves, with original glazing bars largely intact. Numbers 27 to 30 form two pairs, featuring curved bay windows on the ground and first floors; each bay contains a three-light window within a moulded architrave, and the outer bay of each pair is recessed. A cornice and parapet, cut away from number 30, sits above the first floor. The roofs are mansarded. The doorways are rounded, framed in moulded architraves with semi-circular fanlights and double doors, either of eight fielded panels or three fielded panels, leading up six steps with an iron handrail. Number 31, the central house, is double-fronted with two similar curved bay windows on the ground floor only, each accompanied by an iron balcony above. Number 31 also has round-headed windows on the second floor and an eaves cornice. Numbers 32 to 35 form another two pairs, with numbers 32 and 35 being alike and numbers 33 and 34 similar. These houses also feature curved bay windows on the ground and first floors, and eaves cornices, with round-headed doorways enclosed by moulded architraves, fanlights, and double doors. Numbers 33 and 34 have a recessed inner window bay and a dormer window in the attic, while numbers 32 and 33 have recessed porches with an iron balcony on the left-hand first floor. The top floor of numbers 32 and 35, which each have three windows, is flush with the floors below. The terrace, numbers 27 to 35, is considered together as a group.