Description

SALTBURN, MARSKE AND NEW MARSKE

NZ6621NE MARINE PARADE, Saltburn 802-1/8/46 (West side) Nos.7 AND 9 Britannia Mansions and attached railings

GV II

Formerly known as: BRITANNIA TERRACE Saltburn. Pair of seaside terraced houses with steps and railings; now flats. 1863-4, altered C20, as Britannia Terrace by John Ross of Darlington for the Saltburn Improvement Company. MATERIALS: Pease white brick with red sandstone and fossil limestone dressings; red brick left return gable; Welsh slate roof with fishscale mansard and brick chimneys. Wrought-iron balconies and handrails. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys, attics and basement; 6-window range. 10 steps up at right of each house to 6-panel 2-leaf doors, the leaves now united, with circular middle panels and shaped overlights. Door surrounds of limestone shafts and red sandstone segmental heads recessed in similar head with lugged, keyed red arch surround raised from impost string. Jambs have scrolled stone feet and moulded chamfers. Similar details without shafts to 2-light ground-floor casements, glazing bars to No.9, in stone surrounds. Basement windows set behind 2-bay stone segmental arches between battered piers with red brick tumbling; capitals flanking arches have large patera and support cast-iron piers of ground-floor arcade. First-floor balcony on which open full-length first-floor windows, 2-light except central canted bay to each house. These windows have scroll brackets to cornices with central raised decoration. Second-floor sashes have shallow balconies with pierced stone balustrades, and dripmoulds to heads with similar raised panels; smaller third-floor sashes have string rising to segmental heads. Some windows renewed glazing. Deep eaves cornice with elaborate modillions to gutter. Lugged surrounds to 2 segmental headed dormers to each house. Roof has 2 inserted glazed lights at No.7; long transverse ridge stacks. Cast-iron balustrade to ground floor has-arched panels and lozenge dogbars; leaf and tendril iron brackets form elliptical arches between tapered octagonal cast-iron columns supporting first-floor balcony; first floor balustrade of ornate geometric pattern.

INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: area railings repeat ground floor balustrade design; twisted balusters support wide iron handrails flanking steps to door. HISTORY: No.9 was the summer residence of Henry Pease, founder of the Saltburn Improvement Company, established 1861 to develop the new town as a holiday resort. (Wilson CS: The History of Saltburn: Saltburn by Sea: 1983-: 58).



Listing NGR: NZ6658821516

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