Description

SALTBURN, MARSKE AND NEW MARSKE

NZ6621SW STATION SQUARE, Saltburn
802-1/10/57 (West side)
11/06/73 Railway Station
(Formerly Listed as:
SALTBURN AND MARSKE BY THE SEA
STATION SQUARE, Saltburn By The Sea
Railway Station)

GV II

Railway station, now shops, restaurant and railway station.
1861, probably by west Peachey for the Stockton and Darlington
Railway.
MATERIALS: cream brick with ashlar dressings and cast-iron
windows; Welsh slate roof with brick and ashlar chimneys.
STYLE: Classical.
EXTERIOR: single storey, 19-bay range, arranged
2:2:3:1:3:1:3:2:2, the central 5 higher and projecting and
with a 3-bay portico, the outer groups of 7 with central 2-bay
projections.
Central block has ashlar plinths and capitals to shallow
Tuscan pilasters with entasis which define portico and
flanking bays.
Portico has jewelled keys to round arches with ashlar
architraves resting on recessed pilasters. Similar style heads
to windows of flanking bays and to openings behind portico
side doors and central window with cabled shafts,
Lombardic tracery; doors have curved brackets to archivolts
and radiating glazing bars to semi-circular overlights. Deep
entablature rests on pilasters and has blocking course, behind
which is a low-pitched hipped roof.
Flanking wings, each with central 2 bays breaking forward
under hipped roof, have renewed doors and windows with
pilasters, the right wing with scroll brackets and entablature
to segmental headed ashlar surround to door in second bay from
end.
Polychrome brick heads on ashlar impost string to windows and
to plain door to left of centre block; heads round in link
blocks and raised and segmental in projections; bracketed
eaves cornice; roof with ridge at eaves height of central
block.
Roof has yellow terracotta ridge tiles and tall chimneys at
side eaves of central hipped roof and on ridge of wings.
Extruded lower corner lavatory block between centre and wing
at right has 2 segmental-headed windows, door in right return
and ashlar entablature.

INTERIOR: not inspected.
(Industrial Archaeology Review: Spring 1980: Harrison JK and
Harrison A: 139).

Listing NGR: NZ6640721406

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26667215

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