38 and 39, Church Street is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1972. House.

38 and 39, Church Street

WRENN ID
under-lintel-peregrine
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
38 and 39, Church Street, Harwich
OS grid reference
TM 259 327
Coordinates
51.94713, 1.28587
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

38 and 39 Church Street are two semi-detached houses built in the early 19th century. They are constructed of gault brick, with the southeast wall being timber-framed and covered in painted weatherboarding. The houses have a hipped roof made of Welsh slate, featuring a lead roof and red clay hip tiles.

The front of the houses has a plain parapet and four double-hung sash windows with small panes, which are recessed under slightly arched, rubbed brick heads. On the ground floor, there are two similar double-hung sash windows and two Doric door cases, each with flat hoods, pilasters, and doors that have four flush panels with rectangular plain fanlights above. Number 38 includes a 19th-century yard entry door with four flush panels and a cast-iron screen in front of the lower half of the window. The houses have a black tarred plinth and holes indicating where former bootscrapers were located. There are two ridgeline stacks.

The rear elevation features red Flemish-bond brickwork and a modillioned cornice, but this is now obscured by two hipped-roof, two-storey extensions made of red brick; one is covered in clay pantiles and the other in concrete plain tiles. The lower halves of the walls are rendered, and there is a two-storey flat-roofed projection between the extensions. The rear has flush double-hung sash windows with moulded surrounds, with one window featuring a segmental brick arch above it. There is a linking yard wall between the projecting extensions.

Inside number 38, there is an early 19th-century staircase that has a wreathed handrail, stick balusters, and a tapering newel with a fluted base.

Local climate

38 and 39, Church 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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