4 and 5, West Street is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1972. House.

4 and 5, West Street

WRENN ID
lone-pediment-wagtail
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tendring
Constituency
Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 June 1972
Type
House
Address
4 and 5, West Street, Harwich
OS grid reference
TM 260 324
Coordinates
51.94494, 1.28816
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

4 and 5 West Street is a house now divided into two dwellings, dating from the 17th century and later. It features a timber frame with a rendered brick front and a gabled roof covered in concrete pantiles. The building has two storeys and attics.

The exterior presents a symmetrical front with a five-window arrangement of flush 19th-century double-hung sash windows that have moulded surrounds and margin glazing. The central part of the façade includes a blind window recess. There are two recessed door surrounds from the early 19th century, featuring a segmental reeded timber arch, reeded pilasters, and door architraves with a lozenge motif at the corners, along with contemporary four-panel doors.

No. 4 includes two flat-roofed dormers and a rendered gable end stack topped with decorative square pots. No. 5 has one segmental-headed dormer window with a double-hung sash window that also has margin glazing bars. The first-floor windows of No. 5 are adorned with coloured glass in the corners and share a rendered gable and stack with No. 6. Inside No. 4, some timber framing from the 17th century is exposed, while No. 5 features an inglenook stack with an oven and a mantel beam.

Local climate

4 and 5, 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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