8, KING'S QUAY STREET

8, KING'S QUAY STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1204745
Date first listed:
20-Jun-1972
List Entry Name:
8, KING'S QUAY STREET
Statutory Address:
8, KING'S QUAY STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1204745
Date first listed:
20-Jun-1972
Date of most recent amendment:
18-Apr-1994
List Entry Name:
8, KING'S QUAY STREET
Statutory Address 1:
8, KING'S QUAY 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.

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
8, 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 26024 32790

Details

HARWICH

TM2632NW KING'S QUAY STREET 609-1/2/67 (South West side) 20/06/72 No.8 (Formerly Listed as: KINGS QUAY STREET (South West side) Nos.7-9 (Consecutive))

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House. C18 or early C19. Timber-framed with rendered brick front and clay plain tile roof continuous with Nos 9 & 7 (qv). Further attic storey perched at right-angles over main roof with Welsh slate low pitched roof and black weatherboarding. 2 storeys, attics and extra 4th storey attic of c1900. Upper attic has 2 linked, 2-light casements with small panes. One hipped roofed dormer with clay plain tiles, moulded timber cornice and asymmetrical double-hung sash of 6 panes, behind plain parapet. First floor has 2 similar windows and recessed door with semicircular-arch head on impost blocks and 3 stone steps. Thin reeded jambs and architrave, radiating 'petal' fanlight and C20 6-panel door. INTERIOR: early C19 winder staircase with column newels, hardwood handrail and continuous curved soffit. Door on first floor has C19 moulded architrave and borrowed light over of wine-coloured glass. Exposed spine beams and framed side purlin roof. Early C19 fire surround on ground-floor front room. Boundary wall to rear yard separating garden of No.7 (qv) is of septaria.

Listing NGR: TM2602432787

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
366542
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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