Bay Hotel Marina Court Powderham Terrace

A symmetrical terrace of fifteen houses built in the mid-19th century, facing the sea, with Marina Court to the left and the Bay Hotel to the right. Numbers 4, 5, and 6 were restored in the 20th century after damage in World War II. The buildings are of painted stucco with slate roofs, rendered stacks to most party walls (some now removed), and gable ends. They have double-depth plans, and the central houses feature two-storey gabled rear wings.

The design is in the Italianate style. The facades are two storeys high with attics; each house has a two-window arrangement. The ground floor features banded rustication across the entire facade. The terminal houses and three central houses are three storeys high, with a three-window arrangement and three-storey gabled returns. These returns possess wide bracketed eaves, pilasters, eaves bands, and oculi set within plaster wreaths in the attics. Three semicircular-arched windows on the second floor have moulded pilasters and sill string courses, with the central window beneath a pediment supported by consoles. First-floor windows have consoles supporting a segmental pediment in the centre and cornices to the sides. Ground-floor windows across the whole facade have segmental arches with chamfered voussoirs and vermiculated keystones. The two-storey houses have mansard roofs with two large segmental-arched dormers, a continuous modillion cornice, cornices on consoles to the segmental-arched first-floor windows, and semicircular arches above the doors. The symmetrical three-bay right return displays similar detailing to the front, except the plaster wreath to the gable is without a window, and upper-floor windows to the left are blind. Ground-floor windows are tripartite. A 20th-century porch has been added. The symmetrical three-bay right return of Marina Court also reflects the style of the front, with the central range flanked by stepped-forward gabled bays. A 20th-century dormer is present.

The interiors were not inspected. This terrace is a fine example of the more richly detailed Italianate style adopted for mid-19th century terraces, contrasting with the earlier, more austere terraces in Den Crescent.