Marine Hotel, Cromwell Road, North Berwick

The Marine Hotel, located on Cromwell Road in North Berwick, was designed by Frederick T Pilkington in 1875 and features a Jacobean-Baronial style. The hotel was enlarged by W Hamilton Beattie in 1881 and was partially damaged but restored after a fire in 1898. It consists of three storeys, an attic, and a basement, showcasing a complex main elevation with balustrades, gables, and turrets. The exterior is constructed from squared, snecked rubble with ashlar quoins, a base course, and decorative dressings. There are string courses encircling the building above and below the first floor, and the sash and case windows feature a plate glass glazing pattern.

On the south entrance elevation, there is a three-bay centrepiece flanked by two two-storey projections. These are linked by a swagged columned, painted loggia that screens an arched, bracketed door with a cornice. The central section has a crowstepped gable and decorative pediments above the first and third-floor windows. The left two-storey section includes a full-height canted outer bay with a four-light window. There is also a conical-roofed angle turret at the re-entrant angle. The two west bays project with M-pattern crowstepped gables, which are simply detailed but feature a shell motif inset and additional modest decoration.

To the east, partly obscured by a fire escape, there is an addition characterized by five-windowed, four-storey, conical-roofed angle towers. A smaller corbelled, domed turret is located at the junction with the earlier building, and the symmetrical east gable has central windows flanked by bold stacks and a raised, broken segmental pediment, which is simply detailed to the north.

The north elevation, facing the sea front, is symmetrical and features a gabled nine-bay original building that is now masked at the ground level by a sun loggia. This elevation is plainly detailed, with canted four-light windows that rise through two storeys in wide crowstepped gabled bays.

The west elevation is abutted by a modern conference room extension. The building has coped stacks with mouldings dating from 1881, gabletted crowsteps with arched skewputts, and slated roofs.

Inside, the hotel has been much altered, but some plaster cornices remain. The dining room on the east side features a panelled dado and Corinthian columns, and there is an arched corridor running from east to west.