The Ship Restaurant

THE SHIP RESTAURANT, KING'S QUAY STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1298494
Date first listed:
20-Jun-1972
List Entry Name:
The Ship Restaurant
Statutory Address:
THE SHIP RESTAURANT, KING'S QUAY STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1298494
Date first listed:
20-Jun-1972
Date of most recent amendment:
18-Apr-1994
List Entry Name:
The Ship Restaurant
Statutory Address 1:
THE SHIP RESTAURANT, 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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE SHIP RESTAURANT, 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:
TM 26010 32826

Details

HARWICH

TM2632NW KING'S QUAY STREET 609-1/2/89 (South West side) 20/06/72 The Ship Restaurant (Formerly Listed as: KING'S QUAY STREET (South West side) The Ship Inn)

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Restaurant with flat over. C19. Timber-framed and white shiplap boarding over ground floor of C20 red Flemish-bond brickwork. Gabled peg tile roof end on to King's Quay Street. Two storeys with attics. NE elevation has central red brick exposed stack between areas of boarding. Above roofline this is rectangular with C17-like decoration of vertical bands on corbels. Decorative bargeboards and finial with pendant. Ground floor has C20 plain windows with top ventilators. Canted corner to NE and similar treatment to part of NW elevation. The roof here has 3 weatherboarded gabled dormers, unequally spaced each with decorative bargeboards with pendants and double-hung sash windows with small panes in upper part. First floor has 2 square and 2 narrow similar windows.

Listing NGR: TM2601032826

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
366566
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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