Old Customs House
OLD CUSTOMS HOUSE, 1 AND 2, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187936
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Old Customs House
- Statutory Address:
- OLD CUSTOMS HOUSE, 1 AND 2, WEST STREET
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- Date:
- 2002-06-27
- Reference:
- IOE01/07935/03
- Rights:
- © Mr Wilfred N. Winder. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187936
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Old Customs House
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD CUSTOMS HOUSE, 1 AND 2, WEST 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:
- OLD CUSTOMS HOUSE, 1 AND 2, WEST 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:
- TM2591032663
Details
HARWICH
TM2532NE WEST STREET
609-1/1/114 (South West side)
20/06/72 Nos.1 AND 2
Old Customs House
GV II
Two houses, former customs house. Early C19 and possibly
earlier. Red Flemish-bond brickwork with Gault brick
dressings. Roof of clay plain tiles, gabled at SE and hipped
to NW. 2 storeys with attics and cellars. Symmetrical handed
pair with 2 flat-roofed dormers behind parapet.
EXTERIOR: front has 4-window range of recessed double-hung
sash windows with small panes, the central part, with 2
windows breaking forward slightly. All windows have flat
rubbed brick arches and elongated brick keystones which, on
first floor, link with projecting string band below parapet.
Ground floor has 2 similar windows in other parts of facade
and 2 recessed entrances with keystones above and tall
contemporary doors with 6 raised-and-fielded panels above 2
flush panels.
Raised platform in front of doors, 2 lateral stair flights of
4 stone steps and simple cast- and wrought-iron handrails.
High tarred plinth with moulded top.
North-west flank has similar detail and 3 similar windows with
keystones and C19 red brick, 2-storey lean-to block with Welsh
slate roof, and 2 unequally subdivided horizontally sliding
casements under segmental-arched heads. 3 small irregularly
placed stacks and 2 rooflights in NW roof face.
INTERIOR: No.2 has 2 very large bridging joists and small
floor joists possibly predating front.
Listing NGR: TM2591032663
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 366628
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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