Corner Block, North Return to Stour Street Harwich Radio and Cycle Supplies the Dragon House Chinese Restaurant is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1987. Commercial, shops. 2 related planning applications.
Corner Block, North Return to Stour Street Harwich Radio and Cycle Supplies the Dragon House Chinese Restaurant
- WRENN ID
- ancient-shingle-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1987
- Type
- Commercial, shops
- Address
- Corner Block, North Return to Stour Street Harwich Radio and Cycle Supplies the Dragon House Chinese Restaurant, South Street, Manningtree, CO11 1BB
- OS grid reference
- TM 106 318
- Coordinates
- 51.94492, 1.06366
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a corner block of shops situated on South Street in Manningtree, with a return front to Stour Street. The building dates from the 17th century or earlier, and has been altered and added to in later periods. It is timber framed and plastered, with a large red plain tiled roof that is hipped to Stour Street. The roof has three gabled dormers facing South Street and one facing Stour Street, along with a rear chimney stack. The building forms an "L" shape.
It is two storeys high, with attics and cellars. The first floor has four vertically sliding sash windows, with glazing bars on the left and smaller panes on the right. These windows have moulded surrounds. The shop front for Harwich Radio and Cycle Supplies is on the right, consisting of a single light window to the left of a glazed door approached by steps, and a four-light window to the right. The shop front has a 20th-century fascia with original end pediments. The Dragon House Chinese Restaurant is located to the left, with a central door and windows on either side, and a fascia above. The return front to Stour Street has three first-floor windows and two ground-floor windows on the right, and a tripartite window on the left. These windows are mainly vertically sliding sashes with small panes, with some 19th-century casements.
Local climate
Corner Block, North Return to Stour Street Harwich Radio and Cycle Supplies the Dragon House Chinese Restaurant receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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