Description

SALTBURN, MARSKE AND NEW MARSKE

NZ6421NE MARSKE ROAD, Marske
802-1/6/12 (North side (off))
29/01/96 Tofts Farm: building north-west of
farmhouse

GV II

Stables, byres, cartsheds and foldyard. Mid C19, altered C20.
MATERIALS: Coursed squared sandstone with herringbone tooling;
roofs of pantiles with stone ridges and stone gable copings;
right extension has roof renewed in Welsh slate. One shed roof
renewed in corrugated metal.
EXTERIOR: single storey, 16 bays arranged 6:3:2:1:4 and
extension of one storey, 4 bays set back at right.
6 bay section has boarded doors in second and fifth bays under
flat stone lintels; similar lintels and projecting stone sills
to sash with glazing bars at left and to partly-glazed
hit-and-miss ventilators in other bays.
3 bay section has wide gable over 3 boarded doors with flat
stone lintels; similar lintel over wide fixed light with
glazing bars in gable peak.
To right, 2-bay foldyard has high stone piers; in left bay, a
boarded door, and lower boarded double doors under tilted
horizontal plank shuttering; in right bay, a stone wall approx
1.5 m high below horizontal planking continues through to next
bay which is the gabled end of a long shed and has a single
boarded door under flat stone lintel.
Set back at right a low range has two C20 garage doors under
wood lintels, a single boarded door and a single light with
top glazing bars and lower boarding.
Roofs in 5 sections, pantiled except where otherwise
described: the first over stables is hipped, with brick
chimney rising from stone eaves at left; behind the ridge of
this roof rises a second tier of hipped roof on posts making a
ventilating strip which is partly boarded.
3 bay section has gabled roof has ashlar gable copings and is
renewed in corrugated metal. Foldyard roof in similar two
tiered hipped construction but with second tier rising on
stone piers immediately from the first hip. Single bay has
pantiled roof with ashlar gable coping.
The set back range at right has roof of Welsh slate at renewed
pitch lower than gables which have ashlar coping and right end
stone chimney.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: the farm probably served the arising needs of the
expanding market created by the development of the nearby

ironstones mines by the Pease family in the mid C19.
This is an unusually complete example of a developed farm.

Listing NGR: NZ6454021533

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26667187

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