Mortuary is a Grade II listed building in the Redcar and Cleveland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 May 1999. Mortuary.

Mortuary

WRENN ID
south-stone-willow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Redcar and Cleveland
Constituency
Redcar MP: Anna Turley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 May 1999
Type
Mortuary
Address
Mortuary, Saltburn Road, Saltburn, Marske and New Marske
OS grid reference
NZ 669 215
Coordinates
54.58503, -0.96566
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The mortuary, built in 1881, is located on Saltburn Road in Old Saltburn. It is designed in the Gothic Revival style and features a single cell plan. The exterior is rendered with painted ashlar dressings and has a Welsh slate roof. The gabled west front includes a renewed door with a shaped overlight set in a 2-centred pointed arch. There is a single small light on the south elevation, while the other elevations are blank. The building is supported by angle buttresses with two offsets and sloped coping. The roof is finished with ashlar coping at the east, moulded kneelers, gablets at mid-slope, and a truncated block finial. The interior has not been inspected. Historically, this mortuary was built to accommodate bodies that frequently washed up on the beach and was once part of a group that included a lifeboat house and a rocket brigade house. It is the only building from that group to survive road improvements.

Local climate

Mortuary receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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