INCLINED TRAMWAY (UPPER BUILDING) - Saltburn - List Entry
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Description
"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...." -
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