8, King's Quay Street is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1972. House.
8, King's Quay Street
- WRENN ID
- last-marble-ivy
- 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
- 8, King's Quay Street, Harwich
- OS grid reference
- TM 260 327
- Coordinates
- 51.94768, 1.2875
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 8 King’s Quay Street is a house dating from the 18th century or early 19th century. It has a timber-framed structure with a rendered brick front and a clay plain tile roof that connects with Nos. 9 and 7. There is an additional attic storey that is positioned at right angles to the main roof, featuring a low-pitched Welsh slate roof and black weatherboarding. The building has two storeys, attics, and an extra fourth storey attic added around 1900.
The upper attic includes two linked, two-light casement windows with small panes. There is also a hipped-roof dormer with clay plain tiles, a moulded timber cornice, and an asymmetrical double-hung sash window with six panes, situated behind a plain parapet. On the first floor, there are two similar windows and a recessed door with a semicircular-arch head supported by impost blocks, leading up three stone steps. The door features thin reeded jambs and architrave, a radiating 'petal' fanlight, and a 20th-century six-panel door.
Inside, there is an early 19th-century winder staircase with column newels, a hardwood handrail, and a continuous curved soffit. A door on the first floor has a 19th-century moulded architrave and a borrowed light above made of wine-coloured glass. The interior also showcases exposed spine beams and a framed side purlin roof, along with an early 19th-century fire surround in the front room on the ground floor. Additionally, there is a boundary wall to the rear yard that separates the garden of No. 7, constructed of septaria.
Local climate
8, King's Quay 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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