26, King's Quay Street is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1972. House.

26, King's Quay Street

WRENN ID
long-storey-kestrel
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
26, King's Quay Street, Harwich
OS grid reference
TM 261 325
Coordinates
51.94551, 1.28907
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 26 on King's Quay Street is a house dating from the late 18th century, with possible earlier origins. It features a timber frame with a red Flemish-bond brick front and a gabled roof covered in clay plain tiles. The building has two storeys, attics, and cellars.

The front exterior includes a flat-roofed dormer with a two-light casement window set behind a plain parapet. On the first floor, there is a square 19th-century tripartite double-hung sash window within a moulded surround, situated in an old opening with a rubbed brick flat arch. Flanking this window are blind recesses that also have similar flat brick arches. The ground floor features another tripartite window, a blind window recess, and a doorcase topped with a flat hood. The entrance has a recessed six-panel door with raised-and-fielded panels, and the sides of the recess are also panelled. A flat-roofed belvedere sits atop the building, and there is a large chimney stack on the ridgeline that it shares with No. 25.

At the rear, there is a three-storey early 19th-century extension with a low-pitched Welsh slate roof. The southwest gable is made of brick, while the two upper floors are clad in black weatherboarding, each featuring a small-paned double-hung sash window. The ground floor of this extension is recessed.

Inside, the house retains a very complete late 18th-century interior, including a panelled entrance corridor partition. The front room has a simple cornice and fitted cupboards with serpentine shelves, along with a fireplace and several reeded architraves decorated with a flower motif. The ground floor of the rear extension has two fireplace flank recesses with segmental reeded arches and reeded bowed shelves. Some of the timber framing is exposed, made of softwood, and there is a tight winder staircase with turned balusters.

Local climate

26, King's Quay 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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