Former The Wellington Inn

18 and 18A, King's Quay Street

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1187906
Date first listed:
20-Jun-1972
List Entry Name:
Former The Wellington Inn
Statutory Address:
18 and 18A, King's Quay Street
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1187906
Date first listed:
20-Jun-1972
List Entry Name:
Former The Wellington Inn
Statutory Address 1:
18 and 18A, King's Quay Street

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
18 and 18A, King's Quay 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 26065 32732

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 19 August 2024 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards

TM2632NW
609-1/2/90

HARWICH
KING'S QUAY STREET (South West side)
No 18 and 18A

(Formerly listed as No.18 The Wellington Inn)

20/06/72

GV
II

Former public house, the Wellington Inn, now configured as two houses. 1798. Red Flemish-bond brickwork with Gault dressings and four parallel, hipped, clay plain tile roofs at right-angles to frontage. Three storeys with two-storey rear parallel extension of rendered brick with steep pitched clay pantile roof, gabled with Suffolk verge boards.

EXTERIOR: front has plain parapet and off-centre part of facade projects slightly. The second floor has two flush tripartite double-hung sash windows with single vertical glazing bar under flat rubbed brick arch, similar double-hung sash and blind window recess in projecting part.

First floor has similar window arrangement but the blind recess has painted semicircular arch on impost blocks and stone sill. Ground floor has a C19 public house front, each side of the projecting part, with fascia, flat hood and plain glass windows with obscured leaded light ventilators over. The door in the projecting part has semicircular painted arch on impost blocks, plain fanlight and small rectangular glazed light over C20 door. One large stack on rear and one in valley. South-east end has C20 refacing in brick.

Rear extension block is linked to main by two-storey lean-to of white weatherboarding with felt roof.

INTERIOR: early C19 staircase in rear of front range with column newels and stick balusters. Date of 1798 various documentary sources.

Listing NGR: TM2606532732

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
366546
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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