40 Church Street

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

HARWICH

TM2532NE CHURCH STREET 609-1/1/22 (North East side) 30/06/64 No.40

GV II

House, C16 and C18. Timber-framed with rendered brick front. Roof of clay plain tiles, gabled, with 2 flat-roofed dormers behind parapet. 2 storeys with attics and cellars. Front has 5-window range of flush double-hung sash windows with margin-glazing. Centre bay breaks forward slightly with doorcase having segmental pediment, consoles, pulvinated frieze and moulded architrave. 6-panel door with 2 upper panels glazed. Central tall ridgeline stack. INTERIOR: many C18 fittings with L-hinges to cupboards and original architraves. Front rooms have moulded plaster cornices and boxed spine beams. Staircase with Chinese Chippendale balustrade at ground floor and replica above. At head of stairs are painted timber arches with keystones. Stair tower to rear. One early C19 marble fire surround on first floor and one reeded fire surround on ground floor. Simple panelling and side purlin roof with heavy collars. 2-storey gabled block to rear has late C16 timber-framing with jowled post exposed and building truncated at NE end.

Listing NGR: TM2593732736

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/2237 IOE Records taken by Wilfred N Winder; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Wilfred N. Winder. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project