40, WEST STREET
40, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298468
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 40, WEST STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 40, WEST STREET
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- Date:
- 2002-06-27
- Reference:
- IOE01/07935/06
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298468
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 40, WEST STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 40, WEST 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:
- 40, WEST 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 25924 32646
Details
HARWICH
TM2532NE WEST STREET 609-1/1/133 (South West side) 20/06/72 No.40
GV II
House. C16 or earlier and C18. Timber-framed with red Flemish-bond brick front and gabled clay plain tile roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics with gabled dormer of 2 casement lights behind plain parapet. First floor has one square flush double-hung sash with small panes under flat rubbed brick arch and similar narrow double-hung sash. Ground floor similar square double-hung sash and entrance door with semicircular rubbed brick and enclosing fanlight with petal-like glazing bar pattern (some bars missing). Early C19 door with 4 vertical panels. Black tarred plinth and one projecting course of bricks above first-floor window hoods. The surviving SE bay of a larger timber-framed house, the rest now destroyed. Originally of one storey with half-storey attic above, this bay was probably a parlour. INTERIOR: NW flank has original 4-centred arched door head and 'Colchester bracing' wall brace. The flank wall of No.39 (qv) is also exposed showing good quality C16 work. The attic floor joists are lodged and there were no tying members at plate level. (Vernacular Architecture Journal: Drury PJ: 1984-: 34).
Listing NGR: TM2592432646
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 366647
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Drury, P J, Vernacular Architecture in Vernacular Architecture, (1984), 34
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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