Greenhill Lodge

Greenhill Lodge, now a hotel, was built between 1820 and 1840. The villa is rendered and has a slate roof. It is set back and raised above the seafront promenade, with a lower range extending to Greenhill. The seafront elevation is three storeys and an attic, with five windows. There are two small dormers to a hipped roof. The upper windows are sash windows; those at the second floor have six panes, and those at the first floor have twelve panes, all with shutters. The central window at each of these levels is painted. The ground floor has two prominent flat-roofed bays with twelve-pane sashes, and a central panelled door with architrave and a floating cornice. There is a moulded cornice, a blocking course, and a parapet, together with a central ridge stack. The range facing Greenhill has various sash windows on the first floor, and a projecting single-storey hipped range with a portico featuring a segmental pediment, ball finials, and square pilasters with sunk panels. The portico is above a pair of doors with a segmental head and a large keystone. The interior was not inspected. The building is part of a group located immediately north of the Esplanade terraces, marking the extent of early 19th-century development in that direction.