ALEXANDRA HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

ALEXANDRA HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 19, MARINE PARADE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1387530
Date first listed:: 26-May-1999
List Entry Name:: ALEXANDRA HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: ALEXANDRA HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 19, MARINE PARADE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1387530
Date first listed:: 26-May-1999
List Entry Name:: ALEXANDRA HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: ALEXANDRA HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 19, MARINE PARADE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Location

Statutory Address:: ALEXANDRA HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 19, MARINE PARADE

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District:: Redcar and Cleveland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Saltburn, Marske and New Marske
National Grid Reference:: NZ 66583 21572

Details

SALTBURN, MARSKE AND NEW MARSKE

NZ6621NE MARINE PARADE, Saltburn 802-1/8/48 (West side) No.19 Alexandra House and attached railings

GV II

Formerly known as: Alexandra Hotel BRITANNIA TERRACE Saltburn. Hotel, now flats, with railings. 1863-7, altered C20, probably by John Ross of Darlington, for John Anderson (Resident Engineer for Saltburn Improvement Company). MATERIALS: painted white firebrick from Pease's West brickworks at Crook, Co Durham, with sandstone ashlar dressings; coated Welsh slate roof with bands of fishscale and brick chimneys. PLAN: terraced, with 3 right bays; slightly convex in plan. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys, attics and basement; 7-window range in irregular bays. Steps up to C20 panelled door in fifth bay quasi-Venetian stone surround, with side and overlights to door, plain glazing to side windows and blocked segmental light under stopped dripmould. Renewed glazing in basket-headed stone surrounds of all windows except those on top floor. Canted bay windows through basement and 3 floors in bays 1, 3, 4 & 7. Single lights in second bay; round turret projects from sixth, to right of entrance, with canted side windows on ground and first floor and single flanking lights on second. Top floor has keyed segmental heads to sash windows in plain stone surrounds. Entrance bay has individual treatment with tripartite stone mullion and transom window rising through first and second floors, the transoms with carved quatrefoil bands, and Venetian top window with shafts and keyed stopped dripmould. Ground and first floor have elaborate cast-iron balconies, with flowing forms, on iron brackets except in seventh bay where ground-floor window projects from stone relieving arch and the first-floor balcony is in line with the first-floor window sill instead of projecting to follow the line of the window as in other bays. Long brackets to cornices over first and second floor canted bays. All floors have impost bands. Eaves gutter cornice on long brackets resting on string, raised to form half gable over entrance bay. Mansard roof has inserted or renewed flat headed dormers and

large corniced brick stacks. Entrance has square, corniced piers at foot of steps, with elaborate balustrade supporting iron handrail. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: area railings of arcaded iron with spike dogbars in front of first 6 bays; similar railings on high area wall in front of seventh bay curve to join gable wall. HISTORY: built on site laid out to 1861 plan by George Dickinson for the SIC and purchased by Anderson. When opened in 1867 the hotel had 100 rooms. (Industrial Archaeology Review: Spring 1980: Harrison JK and Harrison A: 139; Wilson CS: The History of Saltburn: Saltburn by Sea: 1983-: 65).

Listing NGR: NZ6658321572

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Legacy System number:: 475502
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Wilson, C S, The History of Saltburn, (1983), 65
Harrison, J K, Harrison, A, 'Industrial Archaeology Review' in Industrial Archaeology Review, (1980), 139

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.