14, St Austin'S Lane

HARWICH

TM2632NW ST AUSTIN'S LANE 609-1/2/104 (North West side) 20/06/72 No.14

GV II

House. Late C15/early C16 and late C18. Timber-framed with red Flemish-bond brick front and clay pantiled gambrel roof at right-angles to frontage. 2 storeys with attics. EXTERIOR: front has plain parapet and rendering over lower part of ground floor. On second floor one square blind window opening and one flush square double-hung sash window with small panes both under rubbed brick arches. First floor has one flush double-hung sash window and a similar square window, both with small panes under sharply raking rubbed brick arches. Ground floor has a large flush double-hung sash window with small panes and raking arch head and simple architraved doorcase with flat hood and C20 six-panel door. Part of old gabled steep pitched roof remains behind gambrel. INTERIOR: a cross-wing-like structure, with former partition between front and rear rooms. Timber is wavy with wide stud spacing and jowlless posts. Side walls were open-framed, with straight braces to posts, on both flanks of ground-floor front room. Underside of jetty bressumer has mortices for former, off-centre moulded mullioned window, suggesting former intruded cross-passage under SW part of wing. Room at rear has, on ground floor, large 5-light diamond mullioned window in NE flank. Floor joists have centre tenons with soffit shoulders. Remnants of halved and bridled scarf with vertical peg and under-squinted abutment on display in house. First-floor rear room has evidence for rear door (garderobe). Heavy steep raking arch brace to tie beam. Gambrel roof is later extension to form attic. Reused sail stock from Ramsey Windmill reused as wall plate and ship's mast reused in rear wall. Corner cupboard with serpentine shelves from elsewhere. Probably former 'service' cross-wing of hall house to SW.

Listing NGR: TM2602032754