Old Naval Yard Crane is a Grade II* listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. Crane. 1 related planning application.
Old Naval Yard Crane
- WRENN ID
- fallow-keystone-dust
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Country
- England
- Type
- Crane
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
HARWICH
TM2632SW HARWICH GREEN 609-1/3/47 Old Naval Yard Crane 25/09/51
II*
Crane. 1667. Originally constructed in old Navy Yard but much rebuilt and moved here in 1930. 'House Crane' of timber-framing with clay pantile hipped roof and semicircular curved felt roof over projecting boom. Walls are black weatherboarded over lower two-thirds and open framed above. 4 bays of substantial framing with reversed assembly, St Andrews cross bracing in ends, mid rail girts and 2 front bays have inverted knees on sole plate. Centrally mounted axle for pair of 5m diameter treadwheels which incorporate old clasping spokes, stop-chamfered and with carpenter's marks. Top plate has LA, WR 1799 inscribed on soffit. In front is a raked and braced boom, mounted on vertical pivoting post with hanging knee strengthening the spandrel. The boom has scallop-shaped moulding and ogee on soffit, which could be C17. Probably oldest surviving structure of its kind in Britain. (RCHME: Essex NE: 1922-: 134 (2)).
Listing NGR: TM2621232468
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