Description

HARWICH

TM2532NE WEST STREET
609-1/1/148 (North East side)
20/06/72 Former Harbour Cafe

GV II

House, later cafe, vacant at time of survey. Early C19.
Painted brick with Welsh slate roof hipped on SW corner. 2
storeys and 'L'plan form.
EXTERIOR: front to Church Street has 3 large recessed
double-hung sash windows with small panes and Roman cement
slightly arched heads with projecting keystones. Ground floor
has 2 similar but tripartite windows. Central entrance has
Egyptian doorcase with flat hood, oversailing entablature and
sharply tapering pilasters. Door is deeply recessed with
panelled flanks, upper panels raised-and-fielded. Large
rectangular fanlight over door with 6 flush panels and narrow
panelled strips either side.
The SE elevation to Customs House Lane has one large and one
small double-hung sash, as front, on first floor. Ground floor
has one similar double-hung sash, a contemporary door opening
and two C20 windows. Machine-made clay plain tile roofed
lean-to at NE end linking to interesting outbuilding which is
timber-framed and plastered, plain clay tile roof, tall rear
stack and cellar under.

Listing NGR: TM2593032669

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26585960

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Recommended Books

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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback