Capital Gardens Nursery

This is a house, dating from circa 1600, located on Manor Lane in Dovercourt, Harwich. Originally a house, it was converted into two cottages in the 18th century and later returned to a single dwelling in the 20th century. The building is timber-framed and plastered, with a gabled roof covered in plain clay tiles. It consists of two bays plus a stack bay, with two stories and attics. The east end has a single-story timber-framed section with a gabled plain clay tile roof and rendered walls.

The front elevation, originally the rear of the house, features four late 18th-century Gothick cast-iron windows with pointed arches, a central small opening light, and small panes. Two 20th-century doors, designed to replicate late 18th-century originals, are present, featuring planted intersecting tracery heads. The central stack was rebuilt in the 20th century.

Inside, the original front door leads to a staircase with a curved section against the stack. Some original posts are jowled, and there is an arch brace tied to a tie beam within the stack bay. A sharply cranked external wall brace rises from a post to an end tie beam. Other original features include chamfered spine beams with lamb's tongue stops, square joists with tenons near the soffit and diminished haunches, one curved wind brace in the side purlin roof, a stop-chamfered mantel beam, and an exposed brick back to the parlour fireplace.