38 And 39, Church Street

HARWICH

TM2532NE CHURCH STREET 609-1/1/20 (South West side) 20/06/72 Nos.38 AND 39

GV II

Two semi-detached houses. Early C19. Gault brick with timber-framed SE wall clad in painted weatherboarding and Welsh slate hipped roof with lead roof and red clay hip tiles. EXTERIOR: front has plain parapet and 4 double-hung sash windows with small panes, recessed under slightly arched, rubbed brick heads. Ground floor has 2 similar double-hung sash windows and 2 Doric door cases with flat hoods, pilasters and door with 4 flush panels and rectangular plain fanlight over. No.38 has C19 yard entry door with 4 flush panels and cast-iron screen in front of lower half of window. Black tarred plinth and holes for former bootscrapers. 2 ridgeline stacks. Rear elevation is of red Flemish-bond brickwork and modillioned cornice, now obscured by 2 hipped roofed, 2-storey, red brick extensions, one in clay pantiles (No.38) and the other in concrete plain tiles. Lower half of walls are rendered and a 2-storey flat-roofed projection between extensions. Flush double-hung sash windows with moulded surrounds on rear one with segmental brick arch over. Linking yard wall between projecting extensions. INTERIOR: No.38 is an early C19 staircase with wreathed handrail, stick balusters and tapering newel with fluted base.

Listing NGR: TM2591432726