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THE OLD SWAN HOUSE

THE OLD SWAN HOUSE, 14, KING'S HEAD STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1281210
Date first listed:: 24-Sep-1951
List Entry Name:: THE OLD SWAN HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE OLD SWAN HOUSE, 14, KING'S HEAD STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1281210
Date first listed:: 24-Sep-1951
List Entry Name:: THE OLD SWAN HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE OLD SWAN HOUSE, 14, KING'S HEAD STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: THE OLD SWAN HOUSE, 14, 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 25972 32720

Details

HARWICH

TM2532NE KING'S HEAD STREET 609-1/1/51 (South West side) 25/09/51 No.14 The Old Swan House

GV II*

House. C15, C16, and C17. Timber-framed and rendered with gabled roof of clay plain tiles and lower part of Welsh slate. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics with one large flat-roofed dormer in centre of front. First floor has 3 double-hung sash windows with small panes, 2 square and one narrower. Ground floor has one similar square window, with small panes, a C20 hardwood front door and two C19 double-hung sash windows. North-west of this is one small double-hung sash with small panes and yard entrance with C20 wrought-iron gate. Between storeys, extending over middle of facade is an exposed, convex carved jetty bressumer with running trail of foliage and central cartouche with initials 'W' and 'K' over 'F'. Off-centre ridgeline stack and black painted plinth. To the rear is a 2-storey extension with separate gabled plain tile roof. INTERIOR: 3-bay cross-wings at NW and SE extremities of site. That to NW is probably mid C16 and displays evidence for former service doors and staircase door in the rearmost of its 2 bays (arched heads survived until recently). Bridging joists have stopped chamfers and blocked mortices for former lateral partition. This cross-wing was formerly jettied to street. The SE cross-wing is probably of the late C15 and retains, on its flank, the former parlour door opening, now blocked. The plaster over has late C15 wall painting of a seated male figure with horn and taper and inscription:- 'Sor I ssegn ande mak my mon, the sschryn ys here the bodys goon'. To the left, a curious oval feature with black bands alternatively interpreted as gaming board or cannon. The joists of this cross-wing have stopped chamfers. Between the cross-wings is a 2-storey timber-frame of the early C17 with contemporary stack. This provided one large chamber on each floor and a stack bay to the SE, the principal timbers being quadrant moulded. A pair of spine beams (one now a replica) are moulded with bold ogee profiles. On ground-floor rear wall is an acanthus scroll corbel and a frieze window of moulded mullions, part of a typical tripartite group. First-floor chamber has contemporary plaster ceiling with rose and fleurs-de-lys motifs on beam soffit. Similar ceiling in ground floor of SE cross-wing. Early C17 stack retains plastered arched fireplace, on first floor, with sunk spandrels and chamfered jambs. At ground level the stack has tunnel through with pointed vault to form entrance passage. Rear extension of good quality mid C17 framing and side purlin roof with cambered collars. Between front and rear ranges is a gallery-like structure with C18 balustrade with turned balusters. A C17 side purlin roof now spans the full width of frontage including both cross-wings. The cross-wing arrangement suggests an earlier open hall, either set-back from the street or with an aisle on the frontage. (RCHME: Essex NE: London: 1922-: 136 (20)).

Listing NGR: TM2597232720

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Legacy System number:: 366527
Legacy System:: LBS

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An Inventory of Essex North East, (1922), 136

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.