Description

SALTBURN, MARSKE AND NEW MARSKE

NZ6621SE GLENSIDE, Saltburn 802-1/11/40 (West side) Tower Court

GV II

Formerly known as: Tower House GLENSIDE. Villa. 1864, altered C20. Probably for James Taylor. White Pease brick with ashlar dressings; roof of Welsh slate with terracotta ridge, brick chimneys and stone gable copings. EXTERIOR: 3 storey, 3-window range. Octagonal tower over slightly projecting entrance bay; double chamfered stone surround with pointed heads to half glazed door, plain overlight and to side lights, under oriel with stone floor and sill band and stone parapet. Second floor narrow lights flank high coped head of oriel and have alternate block jambs. Tower rises from hipped roof to second floor and has narrow sashes in alternate planes under stone battlements. To left of tower, crow-stepped gable over renewed ground-floor window, 3-light first and second-floor stone mullioned windows with hoodmoulds, that on second floor raised over high central light; small vent slit in gable peak. Wide right bay has square projecting stone bay on ground floor, canted bay on first floor and 3-light second-floor window, all in stone surrounds and with stone mullions, under stone corbelled eaves gutter. Steeply pitched roof has tall, square brick chimney with battlemented stone coping. Right return to Windsor Road has wide crow-stepped gable over central renewed door with small light at right under tall stone panel with shouldered surrounds to paired sashes on each upper floor; at left a 3-story canted bay under steeply hipped roof. Altered fenestration in next bay to right, plain windows in fourth bay in alternate block surrounds. Lower wide right end building has pointed arch to stone surround of renewed door at right, with overlight; projecting centre has 3-light window on ground floor with stone mullion, and renewed first-floor window under stepped parapet to dormer gable. INTERIOR: not inspected. Included for group value with other buildings on Glenside. (Cleveland County Council: Typescript notes).



Listing NGR: NZ6655621314

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