Pier Hotel

TM2532NE 609-1/1/108 17/08/64

HARWICH THE QUAY (South East side) Pier Hotel (Formerly Listed as: NEW QUAY Pier Hotel)

GV II

Hotel and restaurant. Mid C19. Brick covered in Roman cement with roof of concrete pantiles, gabled to SW, hipped on NE and returning to gable at SE end. 3 storeys with belvedere and square plan form. Belvedere of unequal octagon plan with concrete pantile roof rising to iron finial. Consoles and part-consoles on exposed front corners. EXTERIOR: NW front face has 2 coupled double-hung sash windows with moulded semicircular heads and circle motif above. North-east and SW flanks have one similar window. Modillioned cornice and main front of 3 wide bays with rusticated banded pilasters. Second floor has C20 aluminium windows with raised surrounds and moulded band at floor level. First floor has, on each outer bay, paired C20 aluminium French window with linked upcurving 'Baroque' entablatures. Central bay has central window with segmental moulded arch and keystone and 'Pier Hotel' in sans serif letters. Full width balcony with elegant cast-iron handrail. Ground floor has central arched entrance and unaltered right-hand bay has tripartite subdivision of pilasters with semicircular windows with 3 linked windows in central part. The left bay has C20 simplification with coupled arch-headed windows in centre. At time of survey projecting plastic canopies either side of entrance. The return flank to NE is of ashlared render with 4 double-hung sash windows on first and second floor, corner banded strip pilasters and double arch-headed windows on ground floor with small painted timber pilasters.

Listing NGR: TM2598032832