Esplanade House and Attached Railings
ESPLANADE HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 31 AND 32, KING'S QUAY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1204858
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Esplanade House and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- ESPLANADE HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 31 AND 32, KING'S QUAY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1204858
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Esplanade House and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- ESPLANADE HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 31 AND 32, 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.
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:
- ESPLANADE HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 31 AND 32, 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:
- TM2615732531
Details
HARWICH
TM2632NW KING'S QUAY STREET
609-1/2/78 (South West side)
25/09/51 Nos.31 AND 32
Esplanade House and attached
railings
GV II
House with attached iron railings. 'newly built 1813'. Cream
Gault bricks with Welsh slate gambrel roof, the upper part
hipped on the SE end. 3 storeys with attics and cellars and
with complex extension to rear.
EXTERIOR: symmetrical front with continuous parapet and 2
full-height brick bows, each with painted timber entablature
at each storey height. The bows each have 3 grouped
double-hung sash windows with small panes on each floor,
framed by painted timber pilasters and with stone sills. In
the centre, the upper 2 floors each have a double-hung sash
window with small panes and red rubbed brick arches with stone
imposts. The central entrance has a semicircular red brick
arched head on stone imposts, enclosing an Adamesque fanlight.
6-panel door with reeded panel mouldings and reeded pilasters
and frieze. Flight of stone steps with cast-iron handrails and
bootscrapers. Cellars are lit by double-hung sash windows into
an area enclosed by spear-headed cast-iron railings of
segmental plan form echoing the bows. One stack at NW end of
ridgeline.
INTERIOR: substantially unchanged plan form with central hall
leading through semicircular-arched opening to the staircase
placed at right-angles. This is a cantilevered, open-well
stair with stick balusters and wreathed hardwood handrail.
Service stairs in rear. All major rooms have reeded
architraves and skirtings and simple plaster cornices. 2
curved doors with curved reeded architraves survive, perhaps
remnants of an earlier unrealised scheme. Some rooms have
semicircular-headed recesses and cupboards with reeded
surrounds. All first-floor rooms have reeded door architraves
with lions' heads at the intersections.
Listing NGR: TM2615732531
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 366554
- 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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