Description

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NZ6322NE
802-1/4/2

SALTBURN, MARSKE AND NEW MARSKE
Marske-by-the Sea
Cliff House

(Formerly listed as Cliff House CLIFF TERRACE (North West side), Marske)

11/06/73

II
House, now sheltered housing. c1850. Sandstone ashlar with plinth; grey slate roof. Tudor style.

EXTERIOR: Two storeys, three-window range and long left link of one storey, five 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 two-centred-arched surround with dripmould and blocked head over two tall lights with sloping sill. Labelmoulds to three-light ground floor and two-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 two drip strings over left boarded door and two groups of two-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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26667139

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey