40, West Street

HARWICH

TM2532NE WEST STREET 609-1/1/133 (South West side) 20/06/72 No.40

GV II

House. C16 or earlier and C18. Timber-framed with red Flemish-bond brick front and gabled clay plain tile roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics with gabled dormer of 2 casement lights behind plain parapet. First floor has one square flush double-hung sash with small panes under flat rubbed brick arch and similar narrow double-hung sash. Ground floor similar square double-hung sash and entrance door with semicircular rubbed brick and enclosing fanlight with petal-like glazing bar pattern (some bars missing). Early C19 door with 4 vertical panels. Black tarred plinth and one projecting course of bricks above first-floor window hoods. The surviving SE bay of a larger timber-framed house, the rest now destroyed. Originally of one storey with half-storey attic above, this bay was probably a parlour. INTERIOR: NW flank has original 4-centred arched door head and 'Colchester bracing' wall brace. The flank wall of No.39 (qv) is also exposed showing good quality C16 work. The attic floor joists are lodged and there were no tying members at plate level. (Vernacular Architecture Journal: Drury PJ: 1984-: 34).

Listing NGR: TM2592432646