Description

SALTBURN, MARSKE AND NEW MARSKE

NZ6620SW MARSKE MILL LANE, Saltburn 802-1/12/50 (West side) No.40 Manesty

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Formerly known as: The Homestead MARSKE MILL LANE Saltburn. Villa. 1905-7. Burnt before completed; part rebuilt 1907 by Cackett and Burns Dick of Newcastle upon Tyne for Major HR French. MATERIALS: snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings and timber-framed to porches and rear window gables; roof of French tiles with brick chimneys. STYLE: Vernacular Revival. PLAN: U-plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, irregular 5-window front and right extension under catslide roof. Front has long end wings breaking forward; between them wide gabled porch at left has partly-glazed door with side lights, 3-light transom stair window above under gable with small diamond-shaped decorative panel. To right, a small single light and a 2-light window; low 2-light window below single light. Left wing front has 4-light window on each floor, the upper rising above eaves. Right wing, with single upper light in narrow diagonal link to main elevation, has boarded, partly glazed garage doors below 3-light window; right extension has similar garage doors under swept catslide roof. Inner return of left wing has single ground and 2-light first-floor windows to right of central external chimney stack. Inner return of right wing has single high window at left. All windows casements, those in stone walls with flat stone lintels and thin wood sills. Small 2-light window in wide triangular dormer to right of porch gable. 2 transverse ridge chimneys on main roof, one on right wing and stack with offsets rising from eaves of inner return of left wing. All roofs have swept eaves, all chimneys have corbelled tops and no pots. Rear elevation has 3-light window breaking eaves in first bay with blank ground floor; timber-framed third bay with glazed door, flanked by gabled bays, the left with projecting square bay window on ground floor, both with wany timber struts to eaves from post truss and from tie beam. INTERIOR: shows short flight of steps in passage up to entrance hall, both panelled; open well stair with stick and pierced wide balusters, with inlay work to newel on second

step, the first swept round to panelled stair well. HISTORY: this house was bought in 1919 by a Mr Hutchinson who lived in the adjacent house then called Manesty; he changed name of this house from Homestead to Manesty. (French P: Letter in possession of present owner, dated 29 May 1950; Cackett and Burns Dick: Plans for villa residence for HR French: Newcastle upon Tyne: 1907-).

Listing NGR: NZ6613620462

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