Neptune Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1972. A C19 House. 1 related planning application.
Neptune Cottage
- WRENN ID
- winding-rafter-cream
- 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
- Neptune Cottage, 28, King's Quay Street, Harwich, CO12 3ES
- OS grid reference
- TM 261 325
- Coordinates
- 51.94545, 1.28919
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Neptune Cottage is an early 19th-century house located on King's Quay Street in Harwich. It is constructed of London stock-type brick laid in Flemish bond and features a gabled, double-range roof covered with Welsh slate. This narrow and tall house has three storeys.
On the second floor, there is a window with a segmental arch, plain glass, and glass louvres in the head. The first floor features a projecting flat-roofed canted bay with shiplap boarding up to the sill. The front face includes a 19th-century double-hung sash window, now fitted with plate glass and glass louvres, while the sides have plain glass. The ground floor has a recessed narrow double-hung sash window with central vertical glazing bars and a door that has a segmental brick arched head. The door consists of six raised-and-fielded panels and a rectangular fanlight with diamond glazing bar patterns.
Inside, there is a dogleg staircase made entirely of pine, featuring column newels and a baluster-like lower part. Several contemporary pine doors with moulded architraves are also present.
Local climate
Neptune Cottage 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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