2, King's Head Street is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1972. House.
2, King's Head Street
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-screen-aspen
- 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
- Address
- 2, King's Head Street, Harwich
- OS grid reference
- TM 260 326
- Coordinates
- 51.94634, 1.28815
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 2 King's Head Street is a house dating from the late 17th century. It has a timber frame that is rendered and features a gabled asymmetrical roof covered with clay plain tiles. The building stands three storeys tall, with a recessed ground floor that may have originally been jettied. The front facade includes two double-hung sash windows with small panes on each floor, while the second-floor windows are flush with moulded surrounds. There is a central early 19th-century door with four panes and moulded frames. A stack is located on the southeast gable, which also has a lean-to porch. Inside, the house has a two-bay timber frame with chamfered spine beams and bridging joists that feature barred lamb's tongue stops. The staircase is a tight winder design.
Local climate
2, King's Head Street 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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