Balmoral Terrace England, UK

Listed Building Description

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SALTBURN, MARSKE AND NEW MARSKE

NZ6621SE GLENSIDE, Saltburn 802-1/11/36 (West side) 02/03/92 Balmoral Terrace Nos 1-6 (consec) (Formerly Listed as: SALTBURN AND MARSKE BY THE SEA GLENSIDE, Saltburn By The Sea (West side) Nos.1-6 (Consecutive) Balmoral Terrace)

GV II

Seaside terrace of six houses, now subdivided into flats and a social club. 1864-66, by John Ross (Darlington). Cream coloured Pease brick with sandstone dressings. Welsh slate roof, now partly reclad in concrete tiles. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic; 14-bay range, symmetrical, the middle 4 bays projecting slightly under 2 gabled dormers; end house double fronted. 4 panel doors, overlights and sash sidelights in plain surrounds, up 4 steps with raked side walls and ramped iron handrails. Doorway bricked up at No.1 Canopies formed by continuous first-floor balconies and octagonal iron columns with enriched capitals and brackets, on stone pedestals. Canted ground-floor bay windows have continuous chamfered plinth and sashes. Above the bay windows, quasi Venetian windows, the centre lights under keyed segmental heads, and holding French casements. Other windows sashes, some renewed with casements; round-headed openings to those on second floor of middle 4 bays. Continuous decorative geometric-pattern iron balcony front on first floor. Oculi under hoodmoulds in the tympana of the middle dormers. Heavy bracketed and stepped eaves cornice with dogtooth brickwork, raked over middle dormers, is broken by square attic windows, now enlarged at Nos 2 & 5 and incorporating late C20 dormers at 2 & 6. Hipped roof and corniced transverse stacks. Similar 3-bay left and 2-bay right returns. INTERIOR: not inspected. Forms part of an important group with The Zetland (qv), overlooking Valley Gardens.

Listing NGR: NZ6657021379