21, King'S Head Street

HARWICH

TM2532NE KING'S HEAD STREET 609-1/1/57 (South West side) 25/09/51 No.21

GV II

House. Mid C16. Timber-framed and plastered with gabled plain clay tile roofs. 2 storeys and attics with long wall jetty on 2 exposed jetty brackets. Front has 2 surprisingly low-pitched linked gables and, on the first floor, 2 double-hung sash windows, small panes and moulded surrounds. 2 similar, but wider, windows on ground floor, one each side of a C19 six-panel door. At the north-west end of the facade is an opening with C20 wrought iron gate to rear yard and No.21A (qv). Parallel range to rear of 2 storeys with clay plain tile gambrel roof. INTERIOR: reveals a single continuous stop-chamfered spine beam and evenly studded south-eastern flank wall. On first floor, top plates and front tie-beam are partially exposed. Roofs of gables renewed. HISTORICAL NOTE: said to be house of Christopher Jones, Master of the 'Mayflower'. (RCHME: Essex NE: London: 1922-: 136 (21)).

Listing NGR: TM2593232756