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HARWICH

TM2632NW ST AUSTIN'S LANE 609-1/2/105 (North West side) 20/06/72 No.15 Antique shop (Formerly Listed as: ST AUSTIN'S LANE (North West side) Half Moon Public House)

GV II

Shop with flat over and to rear. C16 and C18. Timber-framed with brick facades to frontages. Roof, part clay plain tiles and part Welsh slate with hip to street corner. The St Austin's Lane frontage has a c1800 red Flemish-bond brick facade and C19 cast-iron street nameplate. The brick return front to Eastgate Street is rendered with raised band between storeys. EXTERIOR: first floor has one flush double-hung sash window with small panes and one similar tripartite window, cellar access, entrance door and C19 public house front wrapping round to Eastgate Street (mostly C20 replica). This has mullioned and transomed windows, pilasters, painted fascia and panelled stall risers. All windows here have flat gauged brick arches with steeply raked voussoirs. To Eastgate Street, first floor has one double-hung sash window with small panes. Ground floor has 2, recessed C19 double-hung sash windows each with a single vertical glazing bar. Remains of an early C16 timber frame survive, formerly jettied to both frontages with dragon beam and plain joists with central tenons and diminished haunches. Part of a tie beam and one substantial post, also survive from an earlier frame. An adjoining stack is also of C16.

Listing NGR: TM2601232748

External Links

• Wikidata Q26500698

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)