25 and 26, West Street is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1972. Houses.
25 and 26, West Street
- WRENN ID
- kindled-bronze-elm
- 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
- Houses
- Address
- 25 and 26, West Street, Harwich
- OS grid reference
- TM 260 325
- Coordinates
- 51.94576, 1.28703
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
25 and 26 West Street are two houses that were originally a single dwelling, built in the early 19th century. They feature red Flemish-bond brickwork and a gabled clay plain tile roof, which includes two hipped clay plain tile roofs at the rear, forming a double pile. The buildings are two storeys high with attics, and they have two flat-roofed casement dormers set behind a plain parapet. A large rectangular chimney stack rises through the roof slope at the northwest gable end.
On the exterior, the first floor has a flush double-hung sash window with small panes and a slightly arched rubbed brick head, flanked by a narrower central blind window opening with a similar arch. The ground floor of No. 25 features an early 19th-century shop front with narrow panelled pilasters that support a simple entablature and fascia, along with a flat hood. The door is from the 20th century and has a plain rectangular fanlight above it. The shop front includes another double-hung sash window and an original entrance with a semicircular brick arch set on painted impost blocks. The door has six raised-and-fielded panels, an architrave with reeded panels, and an Adamesque semicircular fanlight.
Inside No. 26, there are painted softwood spine beams and many contemporary doors with thin moulded architraves. A first-floor room features segmental-arched headed recesses on either side of a projecting fireplace.
Local climate
25 and 26, 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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