6, West Street is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1972. House.
6, West Street
- WRENN ID
- pitched-footing-rowan
- 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
- 6, West Street, Harwich
- OS grid reference
- TM 260 324
- Coordinates
- 51.94499, 1.28804
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 6 West Street is a house from the early 19th century, though it has earlier origins. It is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a gabled roof made of concrete interlocking pantiles. The building has two storeys, attics, and cellars, featuring two hipped dormers, each with a double-hung sash window that has a central vertical glazing bar and a moulded surround. The front of the house displays a painted timber cornice with modillions and a three-window range of flush double-hung sashes, again with central vertical glazing bars and moulded surrounds. On the ground floor, there are two similar windows flanking a central doorcase, which has an open pediment supported by consoles and a semicircular fanlight with radial glazing bars. The door itself has six raised-and-fielded panels and is accessed by one stone step. At the rear, there are two large rendered stacks on the wall, along with a extensively renovated white weatherboarded lean-to.
Inside, the layout features a central entrance corridor with simple contemporary panelling below the dado and doors with architraves. There is a Chinese Chippendale staircase that is doglegged but splits into two separate flights leading to the attics. At the base of the stairs, there is a painted timber ogee arch, and the roof is constructed with fully-framed joggled purlins.
Local climate
6, West Street 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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