32, Church Street

HARWICH

TM2532NE CHURCH STREET 609-1/1/16 (South West side) 25/09/51 No.32

GV II

House, early C19. Red Flemish-bond brickwork with traces of tuck pointing. Slate hipped roof largely concealed behind high parapets. 3 storeys with cellars. EXTERIOR: the asymmetrical front has, on second floor, 3 regularly spaced square recessed double-hung sash windows with 6 panes under slightly curved rubbed brick arches. The central window is blind with painted simulated panes. First floor has 3 similar but conventionally proportioned 12-pane windows. 2 similar windows on ground floor and black plinth with 2 cellar accesses, boarded infill with round vent holes. Off-centre pedimented doorcase with moulded architrave and pulvinated frieze. 2 stone steps and contemporary slightly recessed door with 4 raised-and-fielded panels and 2 glazed lights. Flanks and soffit of recess panelled and iron recessed boot scraper in plinth. INTERIOR: very complete, entrance passage with distorted semicircular rear arch on panelled pilasters. Framed side partition. One door has reeded architrave with paterae in corners. Main front room has contemporay plaster cornice. Original, generous dogleg stair in rear with column newels, bracket tread-ends and hardwood handrail. Stair is lit by large, rebuilt, double-hung sash window in rear wall with margin glazing and reeded surround. Either side of stairs are small contemporary closets with borrowed light via square margin-glazed windows with coloured glass inserts. One closet formed lobby to former gallery linking with the Admiral's Ballroom in West Street (not included). On first floor 2 linked doors within elliptical-headed recess with painted architrave. Front first-floor room (now subdivided) has early C19 marble fireplace with panelled pilasters, corner roundels and mantel shelf.

Listing NGR: TM2593832698