Former The Wellington Inn

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TM2632NW 609-1/2/90

HARWICH KING'S QUAY STREET (South West side) No 18 and 18A

(Formerly listed as No.18 The Wellington Inn)

20/06/72

GV II

Former public house, the Wellington Inn, now configured as two houses. 1798. Red Flemish-bond brickwork with Gault dressings and four parallel, hipped, clay plain tile roofs at right-angles to frontage. Three storeys with two-storey rear parallel extension of rendered brick with steep pitched clay pantile roof, gabled with Suffolk verge boards.

EXTERIOR: front has plain parapet and off-centre part of facade projects slightly. The second floor has two flush tripartite double-hung sash windows with single vertical glazing bar under flat rubbed brick arch, similar double-hung sash and blind window recess in projecting part.

First floor has similar window arrangement but the blind recess has painted semicircular arch on impost blocks and stone sill. Ground floor has a C19 public house front, each side of the projecting part, with fascia, flat hood and plain glass windows with obscured leaded light ventilators over. The door in the projecting part has semicircular painted arch on impost blocks, plain fanlight and small rectangular glazed light over C20 door. One large stack on rear and one in valley. South-east end has C20 refacing in brick.

Rear extension block is linked to main by two-storey lean-to of white weatherboarding with felt roof.

INTERIOR: early C19 staircase in rear of front range with column newels and stick balusters. Date of 1798 various documentary sources.

Listing NGR: TM2606532732