10a and 11, King's Quay Street and 11 St Austin's Lane

This property, located at 10a and 11 King's Quay Street and 11 St Austin's Lane, Harwich, is a house, now operating as a restaurant with a flat above. It dates to the early 16th century and the early 19th century. The main corner block is timber-framed with an ashlar render finish and a gabled plain clay tile roof. It is three storeys high with attics, and a hipped roof dormer is centrally positioned on the northeast roof slope.

The exterior features a painted timber modillioned cornice and a central canted bay window rising through the upper two storeys, with double-hung sashes each containing a single vertical glazing bar. The ground floor has a 19th-century shop front with canted oriel bays and a painted plain fascia over a central glazed door. The southeast flank elevation is black weatherboarded on the second floor, with a gable and a shop front on the ground floor. A square rendered stack is positioned astride the ridge at the northwest gable. An adjoining two-storey 20th-century extension with a clay machine-made gambrel roof contributes to the townscape. The St Austin's Lane frontage has differing eaves lines with plain clay tiles, and one gabled dormer. The lower section displays double-hung sashes with two vertical glazing bars on each floor and a simple door. The taller part features a double-hung sash with a moulded surround and a single vertical glazing bar above a 19th-century shop window with a fascia, opening vent, and a central horizontal glazing bar.

The interior of the St Austin’s Lane range reveals a timber-frame dating back to around 1500, with chamfered bridging joists, originally arch-braced to the wall posts. The first floor of this bay exhibits exposed studs and tie-beams. A section of the southwest wall reveals the timber-framed wall of a former adjoining property, showcasing studwork, a tie-beam, jowled posts, and a blocked diamond mullioned window. The ground-floor rear wall features a blocked door opening with a four-centred arched head. The ground floor fireplace in the main block retains a part of the mantel beam with numerous scratched marks. A reused cambered late 16th-century mantel beam with simple crenellations and a delicately moulded lower edge is found on the first floor.