Old Naval Yard Crane
OLD NAVAL YARD CRANE, HARWICH GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1187899
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Old Naval Yard Crane
- Statutory Address:
- OLD NAVAL YARD CRANE, HARWICH GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1187899
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Old Naval Yard Crane
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD NAVAL YARD CRANE, HARWICH GREEN
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:
- OLD NAVAL YARD CRANE, HARWICH GREEN
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 26212 32468
Details
HARWICH
TM2632SW HARWICH GREEN 609-1/3/47 Old Naval Yard Crane 25/09/51
II*
Crane. 1667. Originally constructed in old Navy Yard but much rebuilt and moved here in 1930. 'House Crane' of timber-framing with clay pantile hipped roof and semicircular curved felt roof over projecting boom. Walls are black weatherboarded over lower two-thirds and open framed above. 4 bays of substantial framing with reversed assembly, St Andrews cross bracing in ends, mid rail girts and 2 front bays have inverted knees on sole plate. Centrally mounted axle for pair of 5m diameter treadwheels which incorporate old clasping spokes, stop-chamfered and with carpenter's marks. Top plate has LA, WR 1799 inscribed on soffit. In front is a raked and braced boom, mounted on vertical pivoting post with hanging knee strengthening the spandrel. The boom has scallop-shaped moulding and ogee on soffit, which could be C17. Probably oldest surviving structure of its kind in Britain. (RCHME: Essex NE: 1922-: 134 (2)).
Listing NGR: TM2621232468
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 366522
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of Essex North East, (1922), 134
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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