31 and 32, West Street is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. Houses. 2 related planning applications.
31 and 32, West Street
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-tin-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Houses
- Address
- 31 and 32, West Street, Harwich, CO12 3DD
- OS grid reference
- TM 259 326
- Coordinates
- 51.94602, 1.2865
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
31 and 32 West Street are two houses dating from the late 17th century to early 18th century. They are timber-framed and rendered, featuring a gabled roof covered with clay plain tiles. The buildings are two storeys high with attics and cellars.
The exterior has a symmetrical front, which includes a 20th-century flat-roofed dormer with a two-light casement window that has a cross pattern of glazing bars. The eaves are coved and moulded, supported by metal stays. On the first floor, there is a five-window range of double-hung sash windows with small panes and moulded surrounds. The ground floor features four smaller but similar windows and an open pedimented door case. This door case has reeded pilasters and a recessed door with six raised-and-fielded panels, accessed by three steps. Above the door is a reeded band and a semicircular fanlight with petal-like subdivisions. The door to No. 32 has a 20th-century pediment on brackets and an early 19th-century five-panel door.
At the rear, there is a three-storey stair tower topped with a hipped clay plain tile roof. Inside, the entrance passage features a semicircular rear arch with a keystone and panelled pilasters. There is a mid-18th-century dogleg staircase with barley-sugar balusters in the first flight, turned balusters at the first floor, and plain boarded panels leading up to the attic level.
Local climate
31 and 32, West 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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