Cliff House England, UK

Listed Building Description

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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

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