39a, Church Street is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1972. House. 3 related planning applications.
39a, Church Street
- WRENN ID
- ghost-lead-river
- 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
- 39a, Church Street, Harwich, CO12 3EA
- OS grid reference
- TM 259 327
- Coordinates
- 51.94725, 1.28603
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house of the late 16th or early 17th century, located in Harwich. It is timber-framed, with an ashlar plastered front and a brick facing on the northwest flank. The roof is gabled concrete, running at a right angle to the street, and is concealed behind a high, plain parapet. The rear and part of the flank are black weatherboarded, and there is a stack projecting through the rear roof slope.
The house is two storeys high, with an attic. The front features double-hung sash windows with margin-glazing on both floors, and a six-panel entrance door; the top two panels are glazed, the others featuring prominent moulded frames. A small, high-quality two-bay cross-wing is present, along with a contemporary attic floor. There is also an extra narrow bay at the rear, possibly for the stack.
Inside, the house retains original features including jowled posts, top plates, and bridging joists with stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. An early 19th-century panelled partition separates the stairway.
Local climate
39a, Church 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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