9, Market Street

HARWICH

TM2632NW MARKET STREET 609-1/2/98 (South East side) 01/11/73 No.9

GV II

House, former shop on ground floor. Late C16 possibly earlier and C19 exterior. Timber-framed and rendered with low pitched slate gabled roof. 3 storeys with stack at SW gable end. Second floor has 2 small 2-light casement windows with top-hung ventilators. First floor has 2 similar but larger windows. Ground floor has C19 shop front with fascia and 5 simple pilasters. These frame a pair of entrance doors, a single entrance door and 2 large window openings with mullions and transoms. Doors are glazed with single horizontal glazing bar and square raised-and-fielded panels below. Splayed recessed corner linking with splayed elevation of No.10. Three bays of timber-framing with c1500 moulded bridging joists on each floor, possibly reused. Suggestions of a late C16 date incorporating earlier material and raised in height in early C19. INTERIOR: early C19 staircase with column newels and stick balusters.

Listing NGR: TM2607532709