27, KING'S HEAD STREET
27, KING'S HEAD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298488
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 27, KING'S HEAD STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 27, KING'S HEAD STREET
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- Date:
- 2002-06-24
- Reference:
- IOE01/07936/20
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298488
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 27, KING'S HEAD STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 27, 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:
- 27, 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 25970 32753
Details
HARWICH
TM2532NE KING'S HEAD STREET 609-1/1/60 (North East side) 20/06/72 No.27
GV II
House. Late C18 with earlier origins. Timber-framed with red Flemish-bond brick front with plain parapet. Gabled concrete pantile roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics and cellars. Front has 2 flat-roofed dormers with cross-glazing pattern casements. First floor has one flush double-hung sash window with small panes and rubbed brick flat arch, either side of a central blind window. Ground floor has 2 similar windows and central doorcase with Ionic cornice and entablature over eared architrave. Six-panel door, 2 upper panels glazed, is slightly recessed at head of 3 stone steps. Glazed cellar light within high plinth fronted with wrought-iron bars. Parapet rendered and raised brick bands below this and between storeys. Suffolk verge board to north-west gable and 2 very tall stacks behind rear wall. To the rear is a low 2-storey block under catslide concrete tile roof and 3-storey hipped concrete tile roofed stair tower. Windows here are double-hung sashes with 2 vertical glazing bars. INTERIOR: an eared architraved fire surround and old doors with butterfly hinges.
Listing NGR: TM2597032753
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 366537
- 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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