Inclined Tramway (Lower Building)
INCLINED TRAMWAY (LOWER BUILDING), LOWER PROMENADE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1387519
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Inclined Tramway (Lower Building)
- Statutory Address:
- INCLINED TRAMWAY (LOWER BUILDING), LOWER PROMENADE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1387519
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Inclined Tramway (Lower Building)
- Statutory Address 1:
- INCLINED TRAMWAY (LOWER BUILDING), LOWER PROMENADE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- INCLINED TRAMWAY (LOWER BUILDING), LOWER PROMENADE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Redcar and Cleveland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Saltburn, Marske and New Marske
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 66617 21707
Details
SALTBURN, MARSKE AND NEW MARSKE
NZ6621NE LOWER PROMENADE, Saltburn 802-1/8/43 (South side) 26/02/99 Inclined Tramway (lower building)
GV II*
Inclined tramway pay office and engine room, with waiting room now a shop. Opened 28 June 1884 for the Owners of the Middlesbrough Estate, correctly the Owners of the Saltburn Estates. Timber-framed front with painted render infill; rendered rear and sides; roof of light grey slates with pierced terracotta ridge cresting. PLAN: cruciform. EXTERIOR: single storey, 3 wide bays. Central gabled bay has Dutch doors to central pay desk and boarded doors to flanking turnstiles. Diagonal timber bracing to panels of framing, with overdoor panels blank; framing clock in gable peak. Bargeboards of pendant shaped sections with high turned spike finial. Engine room at left has boarded door; shop at right has shallow square projecting central bay, flanked by door at left and decorative framing at right, under catslide roof. Roof of central bay runs back to form gable over rear of cabin. All ridges have cresting and finials. Returns have pendant bargeboards in same style as central front gable. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: the third such system built in Britain, and the earliest surviving example. The first two, now demolished, were in Scarborough. Engine pumps water into cistern at top of cliff, from which it is transferred into upper carriage when weight is needed to allow descent. The lower carriage is pulled up by the descent of the upper. The water supply comes from a spring in the cliff. (Wilson CS: The History of Saltburn: Saltburn by Sea: 1983-: 85; Industrial Archaeology Review: Spring 1980: Harrison JK and Harrison A: 150; Lambaurgh District Council: Saltburn's Inclined Tramway (leaflet) quotes Cleveland News; Tighe MF: Cliff Lift, Saltburn by the Sea, Cleveland (typescript notes): Mere, Wilts: 1992-).
Listing NGR: NZ6661721707
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475486
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Tighe, M F, Cliff Lift Saltburn by the Sea Cleveland, (1992)
Wilson, C S, The History of Saltburn, (1983), 85
Harrison, J K, Harrison, A, Industrial Archaeology Review in Industrial Archaeology Review, (1980), 150
Harrison, J K, Harrison, A, Lanbaurgh District Council in Saltburn's Inclined Tramway, ()
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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