Description

1.
5102 OCEAN ROAD
(north side)
The Former Marine School
(Ocean Road Annexe)
NZ 3667 SW 4/53

II

2.
1867-69. T M Clemence, Borough Surveyor.
1909. Addition in Wesley Street. T A Page & Son, Architects.
Red brick, with stone dressings and flat roof. Dignified essay in the "Elizabethan"
style, with projecting bays, tall transom and mullioned windows and classical details.
Two storeys, 3 bay square plan. Most of the bays break forward. All corners are
marked by rusticated quoins.
The central entrance from Ocean Road has a grand stone doorcase of paired rusticated
Tuscan columns with full entablature.
The elevation crowned by entablature and balustrade. The balustrade pierced above
the breaks forward and with decorative cresting above.
The bay at the south-east corner is carried up one full storey above the roof level
to form a square tower crowned by an entablature and pierced balustrade. It is lit
by a semi-circular headed window in each face. The tower originally carried an
observatory which was removed in 1979.
The building was cleaned and restored, April 1980.
This was the original building built for the Marine School.

Listing NGR: NZ3647667322

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26525854

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)