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SALTBURN, MARSKE AND NEW MARSKE

NZ6322NE CLIFF TERRACE, Marske
802-1/4/2 (North West side)
11/06/73 Cliff House

II

House, now sheltered housing. c1850. Sandstone ashlar with
plinth; grey slate roof. Tudor style.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3-window range and long left link of one
storey, 5 bays to adjacent terrace of houses. Symmetrical
front has wide stone steps up to central double many-panelled
door with Tudor-arched head and Perpendicular tracery in
tripartite surround with sidelights and similar tracery below
richly carved frieze. Stepped plinth breaks forward over angle
clasping buttresses and those flanking door which rise through
both storeys, stepped back at floor and eaves.
Window over door has 2-centred-arched surround with dripmould
and blocked head over 2 tall lights with sloping sill.
Labelmoulds to 3-light ground floor and 2-light first-floor
windows in side bays, all with stone mullions and sloping
sills and ground-floor transoms. First floor and eaves
strings, the latter rising in gable peak over door. Angle
buttresses rise as turrets and break through battlemented
parapet.
Roof has wide chimney stacks to left of gable over door,
behind front range at left and at rear; some single stacks,
all with tall octagonal yellow pots with plinths and cornices.
Left return has central projecting square bay with clasping
buttresses and turrets; right return has side steps from rear
to sunk basement area and central full-height canted bay with
parapet.
Single-storey link breaking diagonally forward at left has 2
drip strings over left boarded door and two groups of 2-light
windows, with central stepped buttress rising to stepped panel
on battlemented parapet.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: built for the Pease family, owners of the Upleatham
Iron Mines.






Listing NGR: NZ6353622928

Source: English Heritage

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