27, KING'S QUAY STREET

27, KING'S QUAY STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1281034
Date first listed:
20-Jun-1972
List Entry Name:
27, KING'S QUAY STREET
Statutory Address:
27, KING'S QUAY STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1281034
Date first listed:
20-Jun-1972
Date of most recent amendment:
18-Apr-1994
List Entry Name:
27, KING'S QUAY STREET
Statutory Address 1:
27, 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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Location

Statutory Address:
27, 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:
TM2614732551

Details

HARWICH

TM2632NW KING'S QUAY STREET
609-1/2/75 (South West side)
20/06/72 No.27
(Formerly Listed as:
KINGS QUAY STREET
(South West side)
Nos.25-27 (Consecutive))

GV II

House. Late C18 early C19. Timber-framed with red Flemish-bond
brick front and unequal pitch roof with clay machine-made
plain tiles on front, continuous with Nos 25 & 26 (qv). Rear
roof is low-pitched of Welsh slate as long catslide. 2
storeys, attics and cellars with 2-storey outhouse at rear of
yard with rendered walls and Welsh slate gabled roof. 2-light
casement dormer with 6 small panes and C19 Gothick cusped and
pierced bargeboards.
EXTERIOR: front has plain parapet, square C19 window with 3
square coloured glass lights over 2 casements and blind window
recess as No.26 (qv). Both openings have rubbed brick flat
arches. Ground floor has projecting canted bay window with
hipped clay plain tile roof with similar C19 window of 5
casements with 5 coloured lights over. Recessed entrance door
has moulded architrave, console shouldered frieze and
cornice/hood. Door has 2 small glazed lights over 2
raised-and-fielded panels and 2 flush panels.
INTERIOR: a simple panelled partition to entrance hall as Nos
25 & 26 (qv). Stairs rise through stack. Early C19 painted
marble fireplace to ground-floor room with mantel shelf and
shell motif at corners. 2 simple panelled doors with moulded
architraves. Enlargement of earlier building and apparently a
separate build from Nos 25 & 26.


Listing NGR: TM2614732551

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
366551
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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