Northcliffe House

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TA 1 80 and TA 11 80 11/1

NORTH YORKSHIRE SCARBOROUGH BOROUGH COUNCIL

FILEY CARGATE HILL (north side) Northcliffe House

(Formerly listed as Northcliffe)

II House. 1891-93. By W. Brierley for Miss E. Clarke. Jacobethan style. Dressed sandstone; ashlar dressings; tiled roof. Main front: 2 storeys, 5 bays, gabled at ends and centre with attics, recessed between. Off-centre castellated porch with dated cartouche over basket arch. Gabled bay to right has 2-storey, 3 window canted bay, with castellated parapet. Mullion windows with square leaded lights throughout, with transoms to ground floor. Moulded first floor band. Coped gables with ball finials. C20 dormers. Rear: 3-light mullion and double transom staircase window with trefoil heads and decorative glazing. At end left is a 3-storey castellated tower with raised bands at first floor, eaves and parapet levels. 3-storey canted bay to seaward front. Left front: former service range with conical-roofed kitchen and scrolled, bracketed eaves. Irregular stacks pierce the pitched roof. A number of Arts and Crafts wrought iron features survive including a filigree bell pull to right of porch entrance, a lantern within the porch, and a bracketed bell hung over the kitchen yard.

H. Muthesius, Das Englische Haus, figs. 200 and 214.

Listing NGR: TA1187680686