3, Diamond Street

SALTBURN, MARSKE AND NEW MARSKE

NZ6621SW DIAMOND STREET, Saltburn 802-1/10/33 (East side) No.3

GV II

Factory, now offices, possibly originally warehouse. c1875. Polychrome brick with some ashlar dressings; roof not visible. Early Italian Renaissance style. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3-window range, narrow central bay has shallow brick porch: pilasters support ashlar springers of round arch under herringbone-brick gable with stone coping. 6-panel door and semi-circular overlight. To right of door a wide vehicle entrance has painted lintel. Two-light window at left has polychrome brick voussoirs and bracketed ashlar sill; central barleysugar shaft with crocket capital supporting overlight with Romanesque glazing bars. Similar treatment to left and right windows on first floor, where central window is a single sash with similar treatment; dark brick courses link head. Second floor has smaller sashes, paired in outer bays, with chequered brick impost band and bolder bands of colour in voussoirs. Coloured Lombard frieze between end-brick kneelers supports renewed eaves gutter. Right return gable brick; left return gable rendered. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: until 1875 the Saltburn Improvement Committee insisted on white firebrick being used for frontages. Company's minutes show approval on 8 November 1875 for shop, house and warehouse for William Clayton in Milton Street. This could be that warehouse, behind No.21 Milton Street (not included) which is in similar materials and style. (Industrial Archaeology Review: Spring 1980: Harrison JK and Harrison A: 156; Cleveland County Council office files.: Notes on Saltburn Improvement Committee minutes in Co. archives: U/S/348, C/C/A).

Listing NGR: NZ6642121499