Inclined Tramway (Upper Building)
INCLINED TRAMWAY (UPPER BUILDING), LOWER PROMENADE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1387523
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Inclined Tramway (Upper Building)
- Statutory Address:
- INCLINED TRAMWAY (UPPER BUILDING), LOWER PROMENADE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1387523
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Inclined Tramway (Upper Building)
- Statutory Address 1:
- INCLINED TRAMWAY (UPPER BUILDING), LOWER PROMENADE
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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 (UPPER 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 66597 21653
Details
SALTBURN, MARSKE AND NEW MARSKE
NZ6621NE LOWER PROMENADE, Saltburn 802-1/8/42 (South side) 26/02/99 Inclined Tramway (upper building)
GV II*
Brakeman's cabin for inclined tramway. 1884, with instruction of Head Wrightson's engineers, for the Owners of the Middlesbrough Estate, more correctly the Owners of the Saltburn Estates. Timber-framed with painted board infill; roof of light grey slates with grey tile ridge. EXTERIOR: gable to street has 2-panelled door with diagonal bracing to lower panels of surrounding framing. Low pitched roof has pendant bargeboards and tall turned wood spike finial. Similar treatment to gable facing incline. Returns have diagonal bracing to lower panels, blank upper panels, and 2-light casements. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: construction based on Head Wrightson's experience of blast furnace hoists (Wilson CS). George Marks, of Tangye and Marks' Lifting Machinery Depot, was involved (MF Tighe). The third such system in Britain and the earliest to survive. The first two, now demolished, were in Scarborough. Cistern below holds water supply. Brakeman regulates speed and water supply to carriages by hydraulic traction system from engine house at lower building (qv). (Wilson CS: The History of Saltburn: Saltburn by Sea: 1983-: 84, 88; 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: NZ6659721653
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475493
- 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), 84,88
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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