Description

HARWICH

TM2632SW HARWICH GREEN
609-1/3/47 Old Naval Yard Crane
25/09/51

II*

Crane. 1667. Originally constructed in old Navy Yard but much
rebuilt and moved here in 1930. 'House Crane' of
timber-framing with clay pantile hipped roof and semicircular
curved felt roof over projecting boom. Walls are black
weatherboarded over lower two-thirds and open framed above. 4
bays of substantial framing with reversed assembly, St Andrews
cross bracing in ends, mid rail girts and 2 front bays have
inverted knees on sole plate. Centrally mounted axle for pair
of 5m diameter treadwheels which incorporate old clasping
spokes, stop-chamfered and with carpenter's marks. Top plate
has LA, WR 1799 inscribed on soffit. In front is a raked and
braced boom, mounted on vertical pivoting post with hanging
knee strengthening the spandrel. The boom has scallop-shaped
moulding and ogee on soffit, which could be C17. Probably
oldest surviving structure of its kind in Britain.
(RCHME: Essex NE: 1922-: 134 (2)).

Listing NGR: TM2621232468

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17532900

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Recommended Books

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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)