Marine View

Detached two-bay two-storey over part basement double-pile house, built 1887, retaining some original fenestration with single-bay single-storey canted bay window to rear (south-east) elevation. Renovated, c.1915, with single-bay single-storey lean-to porch added to side (north-east) elevation. Extended, c.1940, comprising single-bay two-storey lean-to lower recessed end bay to south-west incorporating square-headed carriageway. Renovated and part refenestrated, c.1990. Pitched double-pile (M-profile) slate roof (lean-to to recessed end bay; lean-to to porch) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, rendered coping, and iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered walls to front (north-west) elevation with rendered quoined piers, and painted rendered parapet to porch having stringcourse, and rendered coping. Unpainted replacement cement rendered walls, c.1990, to rear (south-east) elevation. Square-headed window openings (one round-headed window opening to right ground floor) with stone sills, moulded rendered surrounds, and 2/2 timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings to remainder (including to canted bay window) with rendered sills, and replacement uPVC casement windows, c.1990. Square-headed door opening with rendered pilaster surround, replacement timber panelled door, c.1990, and overlight. Square-headed carriageway with iron lifting door. Set back from line of road in own grounds with forecourt having cast-iron railings with Fleur-de-Lys finials.

A well-appointed, middle-size house of distinctive form and massing, which retains most of its original character, together with a range of important salient features and materials. The sophisticated quality of the composition forms an attractive foil to the vernacular appearance of the cottages immediately to north-east (22817036-9/WD-27-17-36 – 9), and contributes to the diversity of the street scene.