Britannia Mansions and Attached Railings
BRITANNIA MANSIONS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 7 AND 9, MARINE PARADE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387528
- Date first listed:
- 26-May-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Britannia Mansions and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- BRITANNIA MANSIONS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 7 AND 9, MARINE PARADE
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387528
- Date first listed:
- 26-May-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Britannia Mansions and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRITANNIA MANSIONS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 7 AND 9, MARINE PARADE
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:
- BRITANNIA MANSIONS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 7 AND 9, MARINE PARADE
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 66588 21516
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475500
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wilson, C S, The History of Saltburn, (1983), 58
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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