Inclined Tramway (Upper Building)

SALTBURN, MARSKE AND NEW MARSKE

NZ6621NE LOWER PROMENADE, Saltburn 802-1/8/42 (South side) 26/02/99 Inclined Tramway (upper building)

GV II*

Brakeman's cabin for inclined tramway. 1884, with instruction of Head Wrightson's engineers, for the Owners of the Middlesbrough Estate, more correctly the Owners of the Saltburn Estates. Timber-framed with painted board infill; roof of light grey slates with grey tile ridge. EXTERIOR: gable to street has 2-panelled door with diagonal bracing to lower panels of surrounding framing. Low pitched roof has pendant bargeboards and tall turned wood spike finial. Similar treatment to gable facing incline. Returns have diagonal bracing to lower panels, blank upper panels, and 2-light casements. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: construction based on Head Wrightson's experience of blast furnace hoists (Wilson CS). George Marks, of Tangye and Marks' Lifting Machinery Depot, was involved (MF Tighe). The third such system in Britain and the earliest to survive. The first two, now demolished, were in Scarborough. Cistern below holds water supply. Brakeman regulates speed and water supply to carriages by hydraulic traction system from engine house at lower building (qv). (Wilson CS: The History of Saltburn: Saltburn by Sea: 1983-: 84, 88; Industrial Archaeology Review: Spring 1980: Harrison JK and Harrison A: 150; Lambaurgh District Council: Saltburn's Inclined Tramway (leaflet) quotes Cleveland News; Tighe MF: Cliff Lift, Saltburn by the Sea, Cleveland (typescript notes): Mere, Wilts: 1992-).

Listing NGR: NZ6659721653