Description

HARWICH

TM2632NW CHURCH STREET
609-1/2/38 (North East side)
20/06/72 The Three Cups Public House
(Formerly Listed as:
CHURCH STREET
(North East side)
Three Cups Hotel)

GV II

Public house. c1500 and late C18. Timber-framed and rendered
and encased in brick on SW and SE elevations. Roofs are gabled
in clay plain tiles and low pitched in asbestos sheeting. Road
front was rebuilt in C20 and has parapet and projecting band
between storeys. First floor is pebbledashed and ground floor
of ashlared render.
EXTERIOR: 7-window range of C20 double-hung sashes with small
panes and central early C19 doorcase with moulded architrave,
console brackets supporting dentilled cornice. SE elevation is
of red Flemish-bond brickwork reduced in height following a
fire. Projecting canted bay window with double-hung sash
windows with small panes on timber brackets and mixture of
double-hung sashes, some with arched heads and some with flat
gauged brick arches. Low parapeted gable over front half.
NE elevation is of 3 parts with a flat-roofed 2-storey block
forming the southern end. In the centre, a 2-storey slate
hipped roofed block, jettied on upper floor with 2 surviving
brackets. The ground floor of this has canted bay of
double-hung sashes with small panes and an elliptical-arched
early C19 blocked entrance door with simple panelled pilasters
and emphatic cornice. The northernmost part has steep gabled
roof and jettied upper floor with 8 joist ends exposed and one
original bracket. Ground floor has a canted double-hung sash
oriel bay with small panes on timber brackets.
Most of rear elevation is rendered with traces of ashlaring
and some painted brick and weatherboarding. 2-storey
cross-wing of 2 bays at NE corner of complex with richly
moulded spine beams bridging joists and common joists. Roof
survives with collared rafter couples but no evidence for
former crown posts. Similar larger 2-bay structure forming
northern part of frontage block with moulded ceiling as above.
The gap between these blocks was possibly a stackbay. Abutting
the SE flank of the cross-wing is a single bay of jettied
framing with spine beam and moulded impost of the late C16.
INTERIOR: within SE part of complex is an early C18 well
staircase with barley-sugar balusters and panelled dado.
Formerly there was a ceiling with fleurs-de-lys and roses on
first floor as at The Globe.
HISTORICAL NOTE: building was used as council chamber prior to
rebuilding of Guildhall and referred to as 'mansion' in C17.
It seems probable that this is a purpose-built inn of c1500.
(RCHME: Essex NE: London: 1922-: 135 (3)).

Listing NGR: TM2608632601

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• The Three Cups at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26499801

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Recommended Books

• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
• 
  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)