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
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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