Number 26 and Frontage Wall to South East
NUMBER 26 AND FRONTAGE WALL TO SOUTH EAST, 26, KING'S HEAD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1281089
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Number 26 and Frontage Wall to South East
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 26 AND FRONTAGE WALL TO SOUTH EAST, 26, KING'S HEAD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1281089
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Number 26 and Frontage Wall to South East
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 26 AND FRONTAGE WALL TO SOUTH EAST, 26, KING'S HEAD 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:
- NUMBER 26 AND FRONTAGE WALL TO SOUTH EAST, 26, KING'S HEAD 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 25956 32764
Details
HARWICH
TM2532NE KING'S HEAD STREET 609-1/1/59 (North East side) 25/09/51 No.26 and frontage wall to south-east
GV II*
House and frontage wall to SE. Early and late C16. timber-framed and rendered with gabled plain clay tile roof. 2 storeys with attics with 2-storey extensions of rear and SE flank. EXTERIOR: gabled front elevation has 2-light casement to attic, double-hung sash window with 2 vertical glazing bars to first floor and entrance with moulded surround and 6-panel door. Southern flank extension has richly moulded frieze window on 3 exposed sides above a lean-to machine-made clay plain tile roof and C19 double-hung sash window in former door opening. This is linked to a high, ancient, knapped flint front boundary wall also linking to No.27 (qv). The rear of this wall reveals rubble construction. INTERIOR: 2-bay high quality timber-frame, at right-angles to street with spine beam in rear bay. Probably originally jettied to street. All posts are jowled and principal timbers are flat-chamfered with plain stops. A crown post with straightish arch braces has been reused to support ceiling on first floor. Door of elaborate linenfold panelling is now on ground floor. Until recently a brick spiral staircase (as part of stack) existed behind rear of C16 wing. 2-storey rear extension probably of C18 with gabled clay plain tile roof and reused timber. The small southern flank extension is of considerable interest and is a box-like structure, windowed on the 3 sides of upper floor. Elaborate moulded 'cornice' at front and rear eaves and joisted ceiling beneath roof. West front elevation (now concealed) has 2 short ogee-profile wall braces to a central stud below the window sill. Cross-wing may have formed part of a single dwelling with The Alma Inn (qv), to the NW. (RCHME: Essex NE: London: 1922-: 136 (22)).
Listing NGR: TM2595632764
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 366536
- 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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