Old Harbour Antiques
OLD HARBOUR ANTIQUES, 21, MARKET STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205211
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Old Harbour Antiques
- Statutory Address:
- OLD HARBOUR ANTIQUES, 21, MARKET STREET
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- Date:
- 2002-06-26
- Reference:
- IOE01/07936/35
- Rights:
- © Mr Wilfred N. Winder. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205211
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Old Harbour Antiques
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD HARBOUR ANTIQUES, 21, MARKET 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 HARBOUR ANTIQUES, 21, MARKET 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:
- TM2602232675
Details
HARWICH
TM2632NW MARKET STREET
609-1/2/100 (North West side)
25/09/51 No.21
Old Harbour Antiques
GV II
Shop and flat, late C16 and early C19. Timber-framed with
brick front, pebbledashed with Welsh slate low pitched roof.
Front range 3 storeys with 2-window range of double-hung
sashes with 2 vertical glazing bars on 2nd floor and margin
glazed on first floor. Ground floor has C19 shop front with
faience pilasters, stallrisers and on flank of entrance with
pictorial panel depicting apple picking. Hardwood shop front
with vent grille, turned mullions and arched heads. Etched
glass on door with 'Smith' and vase of flowers and vegetables.
Rear block is of 2 storeys and attic storey with gabled roof
of clay plain tiles. Suffolk verge boards and double-hung sash
windows with small panes. Ground floor part-jettied with
former open rear arcade.
INTERIOR: front range has early C19 staircase with column
newels. First-floor room has ornate C19 cornice and ceiling
rose and marble fireplace with tile inserts. Doorway at rear
of shop has head formed of 2 jetty brackets, one with deer
carved in spandrel and one with pelican. Supporting the latter
is post with full-length female figure, crowned and holding
mirror and shield charged with a fesse nebuly. The letters
OENS or DENS are inscribed below. Other jamb a reused fascia
with running trail ornament of pomegranates. On the stairs is
part of a fascia board, with adorned, bearded human-headed
leopards with a cartouche inscribed E.C.
2-storeys-and-attics rear range has frame of 2 large bays and
narrow bay. Latter formed open passage on NW side supported at
its centre on a chamfered post. At NE end a contemporary
arched door head supported on corner post with bearded male
'Elizabethan' figure with crown and sword. (Probably female
figure formed other jamb.) Doorhead has 2 lamb-like creatures
carved and central cartouche with date inscribed 1588.
The NE side was jettied and surviving corner bracket has, in
spandrel, a crowned male figure with sceptre standing in
pulpit-like structure. The frame has stop-chamfered spine
beams and bridging joists, jowled posts carrying end tie beams
and one near centre. Roof of 3 bays, unrelated to storey
posts, 'A' framed with lodged side purlins and arched wind
bracing. Truncated brick stack on SW flank.
(RCHME: Essex NE: London: 1922-: 136 (25)).
Listing NGR: TM2602232675
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 366608
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of Essex North East, (1922), 136
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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