Inclined Tramway (Lower Building)

The inclined tramway lower building, which includes the pay office and engine room, was opened on 28 June 1884 for the Owners of the Saltburn Estates. The structure features a timber-framed front with painted render infill, while the rear and sides are rendered. It has a roof made of light grey slates with pierced terracotta ridge cresting. The building has a cruciform plan and is a single storey with three wide bays.

The central gabled bay has Dutch doors leading to a central pay desk and boarded doors for flanking turnstiles. The panels of framing are supported by diagonal timber bracing, and the overdoor panels are blank. There is a clock framed in the gable peak, and the bargeboards have pendant-shaped sections topped with high turned spike finials. The engine room is located on the left and features a boarded door, while the shop on the right has a shallow square projecting central bay, with a door on the left and decorative framing on the right, all under a catslide roof. The roof of the central bay extends back to form a gable over the rear of the cabin, and all ridges are adorned with cresting and finials. The returns have pendant bargeboards that match the style of the central front gable.

The interior has not been inspected. This tramway is notable for being the third such system built in Britain and the earliest surviving example, following two earlier systems in Scarborough that have since been demolished. The engine pumps water into a cistern at the top of the cliff, which is then transferred into the upper carriage to provide weight for descent. The lower carriage is pulled up by the descent of the upper, with the water supply sourced from a spring in the cliff.