Forresters
FORRESTERS, 5, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187880
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Forresters
- Statutory Address:
- FORRESTERS, 5, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187880
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Forresters
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORRESTERS, 5, CHURCH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FORRESTERS, 5, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Tendring (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Harwich
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 26104 32545
Details
HARWICH
TM2632NW CHURCH STREET 609-1/2/6 (South West side) 25/09/51 No.5 Forresters (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH STREET (South West side) No.5)
GV II
Formerly known as: Foresters Public House CHURCH STREET. House, formerly public house, mid to late C16. Timber-framed and rendered with gabled clay plain tile roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics and long wall jetty to frontage. Street elevation has one wide, shallow, double-hung sash window with small panes and one 2-light casement with small panes and moulded surround, on first floor. Ground floor has a 3-light C19 window with short flanking pilasters, a C19 door with 2 arch-headed panes (moved from elsewhere) and a double-hung sash with small panes and moulded surround. Off-centre ridgeline stack and one small gabled dormer with 2-light casement window. To the rear is a part 2-storey and part single-storey extension, retained from former public house use. 4 bays of timber-framing, largely elm, the southern bays forming large chamber on ground and first floors with flat chamfered and stopped spine and bridging joists. Central wall posts are jowlless and without tiebeam and southern end of structure has been truncated. Narrow stack bay with jowled posts and open truss on north-western flank. Narrow northern bay was presumably a service room on ground floor. Roof contains one poorly-shaped crown post and side purlins with suggestions of wind bracing. (Hybrid roof?). INTERIOR: corner cupboard in main ground floor room of C18 with half-domed interior, Tuscan pilasters, serpentine shelves, from elsewhere in Harwich. Brick-vaulted cellar in rear extension as 'rain back'. (RCHME: Essex North East: London: 1922-: 135, ITEM 11).
Listing NGR: TM2610432545
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 366473
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of Essex North East, (1922), 135
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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