Riftswood

RIFTSWOOD, VICTORIA ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1387592
Date first listed:
18-Jan-1994
Statutory Address:
RIFTSWOOD, VICTORIA ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1387592
Date first listed:
18-Jan-1994
Statutory Address 1:
RIFTSWOOD, VICTORIA ROAD

Location

Statutory Address:
RIFTSWOOD, VICTORIA ROAD

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 66248 20452

Details

SALTBURN, MARSKE AND NEW MARSKE

NZ6620SW VICTORIA ROAD, Saltburn 802-1/12/59 (East side) 18/01/94 Riftswood

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Villa, later Youth Hostel, now house. 1902, altered late C20 by R Lofthouse & Sons, Middlesbrough, for Mr Walker. Brick with bright red terracotta dressings; roof of plain tiles with brick chimneys. STYLE: Domestic Revival. PLAN: irregular H-plan, with extensions. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics, 6-window range, arranged 2:2:2. 2-storey, 4-window range wing set back at left and single storey, right wing set further back. Recessed centre has central partly glazed door and 4-pane overlight in keyed brick surround with elliptical head. Flanking ground-floor windows have 4 over 6 panes in similar surrounds that to right projects; 8 pane sashes on first-floor flank terracotta cartouche with deeply moulded scrolls. Sill strings, ground-floor cornice resting on window keystones and eaves band on first-floor keystones all continue round slight projections of outer bays which have shaped gables with moulded coping over 3 left and at right two widely-spaced ground-floor windows; paired first-floor windows. In left gable peak a renewed 3-light window on apron and moulded sill has brick jambs and scrolled pediment; in right gable a moulded sill to 2-light casement with glazing bars and keyed brick surround. Left wing has blind ground floor at left, inserted door at right under small window; 10-pane window at right; four 8-pane sashes windows set high in wall; stair window in 3-storey right bay. Right return of centre block has shallow apsed full-height projecting bay with continuous strings and cornice. Roof has tall chimney stacks set transverse ridge, on rear eaves and on rear one storey wing, with plinths and cornices and no pots. Entrance front to drive has wide step up to renewed door at left of main block under shaped gable; irregular fenestration; small panes in late C17 style to 3 first-floor windows to left of door. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: NZ6624820452

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