Premises of Orwell and Harwich Navigation Company is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1972. Ticket office, waiting room.
Premises of Orwell and Harwich Navigation Company
- WRENN ID
- ruined-pinnacle-ivory
- 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
- Ticket office, waiting room
- Address
- Premises of Orwell and Harwich Navigation Company, the Quay
- OS grid reference
- TM 259 328
- Coordinates
- 51.94812, 1.28624
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The premises of the Orwell and Harwich Navigation Company, built in the late 19th century, consist of a ticket office and waiting room. The buildings are timber-framed and covered with white painted shiplap boarding, topped with lead roofs. There are two single-storey buildings connected by a flat-roofed link.
The ticket office is octagonal in shape, featuring corner pilasters and moulded rails at both the window sill and head level, with shiplap boarding infill. Each face of the ticket office has one double-hung sash window with small panes in the upper light, except for the entrance door on one side. The building has a wide eaves overhang, and the main roof is designed as a lead tent with a cupola that has arch-headed openings supported by balusters and topped with an ogee roof and iron weather-vane.
The waiting room is rectangular and similar in style, with small pane casements and a hipped lead roof. The east elevation has a pair of entrance doors, each with a glazed panel over a moulded panel. The rear of the building features plain boarded infill. The flat-roofed link block is also shiplap boarded. This structure replaced a more elaborate mid-19th century building that was two storeys tall.
Local climate
Premises of Orwell and Harwich Navigation Company 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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