13, King'S Head Street

HARWICH

TM2532NE KING'S HEAD STREET 609-1/1/50 (South West side) 30/06/64 No.13

GV II

House, early C17. Timber-framed and plastered rear of stained weatherboarding. 3 storeys attics and cellars with gabled plain clay tile roof. EXTERIOR: front is jettied on each floor with C19 painted timber fascias. Second floor has 2 metal casements each of 6 horizontal panes. First floor, 2 double-hung sash windows with small panes. Ground floor has 2 square double-hung sash windows with small panes and off-centre C20 hardwood door with eared architrave. Large rectangular C19 stack against SE flank, partly rendered. To rear, 3-storey stained weatherboarded stair tower and asymmetrical rear gable. Projecting to rear of this is a 2-storey timber-framed extension with rendered walls, gabled peg tile roof and clay pantiled roofed lean-to. Also a larger concrete pantile roofed extension and single-storey outhouse. A 2-bay good quality timber-framed building with stop-chamfered corner posts and chamfered spine beams. INTERIOR: central partition, on ground floor of pieces of old panelling formed one side of cross passage to rear stair tower. In the NW corner, against rear wall is C17 stack with later fireplaces. On 2nd floor, the central bridging joist is supported on inward facing jowls. Stair tower has short length of balustrade with turned balusters. Roof is of 5 bays with 2 joggled purlins within each bay and single curved collars. South gable is a 'fire-wall' masonry structure, now rendered. C19 corner cupboard with serpentine shelves in rear ground-floor room. Cellar retains original bridging joist, spine beams and some square section joists with soffit tenoned joists with diminished haunches. Halved and bridled scarf joint in rear plate. Contrary to local opinion all 3 floors appear to be one build. Cast-iron C19 yard pump against rear flank to former rainback. (RCHME: Essex NE: 1922-: 136 (19)).

Listing NGR: TM2598032722