Former Harbour Cafe is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1972. House, cafe.
Former Harbour Cafe
- WRENN ID
- lesser-obsidian-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1972
- Type
- House, cafe
- Address
- Former Harbour Cafe, West Street, Harwich
- OS grid reference
- TM 259 326
- Coordinates
- 51.94662, 1.28606
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former Harbour Cafe is a house that was later used as a cafe, and it was vacant at the time of the survey. It dates from the early 19th century and is constructed of painted brick with a hipped Welsh slate roof on the southwest corner. The building is two storeys high and has an 'L' plan shape.
The front elevation facing Church Street features three large recessed double-hung sash windows with small panes and slightly arched Roman cement heads that have projecting keystones. The ground floor has two similar tripartite windows. The central entrance is framed by an Egyptian doorcase that includes a flat hood, an oversailing entablature, and sharply tapering pilasters. The door is deeply recessed and has panelled flanks with raised-and-fielded upper panels. Above the door is a large rectangular fanlight with six flush panels and narrow panelled strips on either side.
On the southeast elevation facing Customs House Lane, there is one large and one small double-hung sash window on the first floor, similar to those on the front. The ground floor features one similar double-hung sash window, a contemporary door opening, and two 20th-century windows. At the northeast end, there is a lean-to roofed with machine-made clay plain tiles that connects to an interesting outbuilding. This outbuilding is timber-framed and plastered, has a plain clay tile roof, a tall rear stack, and a cellar underneath.
Local climate
Former Harbour Cafe sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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