14, 15 AND 16, CHURCH STREET
14, 15 AND 16, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1204067
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- 14, 15 AND 16, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 14, 15 AND 16, CHURCH STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/07503/12
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- © Mr Wilfred N. Winder. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1204067
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- 14, 15 AND 16, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 14, 15 AND 16, 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:
- 14, 15 AND 16, 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:
- TM2605032608
Details
HARWICH
TM2632NW CHURCH STREET
609-1/2/10 (South West side)
25/09/51 Nos.14, 15 AND 16
GV II
House, now 2 dwellings. Late medieval, C17 and early C19.
Timber-framed and plastered with clay plain tile roof. Two
storeys with attics and cellars.
EXTERIOR: front has 2 hipped dormers with double-hung sash
windows and small panes. Projecting painted timber cornice
concealing gutter with frieze of little arches. First floor
has 4 irregularly spaced flush double-hung sash windows with
small panes and panelled treatment of plaster. Ground floor
has 3 shop-like windows (one curved and recessed) all with
small panes. 2 entrance doors with early C19 and flat hoods
and have 2 flush panels above 4 raised-and-fielded panels.
On the rear 2 linked extensions of 2 storeys with attics
gabled in clay plain tiles, one a further extension of an
earlier projection. The gables of these are of black
weatherboarding. Large brick stack rises from junction of
northernmost and main roof.
INTERIOR: some late medieval framing exposed inside, probably
an open hall house with formerly jettied cross wing to NW.
This had central partition and doors in outer edges of
partition as parlour/service combined. Eaves height raised in
early C17 and large room part in No.14 and part in No.15 was
given trabeated plaster ceiling with roses, fleurs-de-lys,
circular pendants and foliage decorations.
The north-western extension is contemporary and of
two-and-a-half storey format and has similar ceiling. Southern
flank wall has remnants of former 4-light window with mullion
mortices composed of a circular hole and a small rectangular
hole. Unpainted Chinese Chippendale dogleg staircase and some
C17 panelling in both units. On the ground floor of No.14 is a
reused C17 bressumer with quadrant profile and decorated with
continuous foliage pattern. In centre is shield-like motif
with date 1606 with intial 'S' superimposed and initials 'TE'
below. Probably a former jetty bressumer.
Listing NGR: TM2605032608
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 366477
- 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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