Former Harbour Cafe

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