Spa Cottages

NZ 2809-2909 10/26 22.7.83

CROFT-ON-TEES A 167 (west side, off) Spa Cottages (formerly listed as Nos 1, 2 and 3 Spa cottages')

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Coach-house and house being converted to 1 house at time of resurvey. Early and later C19, C20 alterations. Coursed red sandstone, C20 clay pantile roof. 2 storeys, 4:2 bays, with continuous rear outshut. Original range to left, formerly coach-house with accommodation above: 4 segmental-arched openings, the arches in brick, with ashlar piers. On first floor: C20 sash windows with glazing bars. To right, added house; 4-pane sash windows with ashlar lintels and sills, the opening on ground floor left formerly a door. C20 brick kneelers, ashlar coping. Brick stacks at left end, between fourth and fifth bays and at right end, the last with dogtooth brickwork. Right return: on each floor, and in both main range and outshut, a sash window, formerly to give view along approach track; outshut stack with dogtooth brickwork. Interior of house: in ground-floor room, decorative plasterwork central ceiling boss and undercut cornice; cast-iron fireplace in black marble surround hand-painted with flowers; simple turned baluster staircase; first-floor cast-iron fireplace. On the land opposite this building, the New Spa buildings were built c1827 to provide hot and cold baths, changing rooms, a lounge and a long veranda. The coaches housed here were used to fetch visitors from Croft Spa Station, the house being added for the Spa keeper. T A Littleton, "Cure-All?", Richmond and District Civic Society Annual Report (1982), pp 25-7.

Listing NGR: NZ2878409178