Description

HARWICH

TM2531 LANGLEY CLOSE, Dovercourt
609-1/7/163 (West side)
20/06/72 No.84
Old Vicarage Farmhouse
(Formerly Listed as:
LEE ROAD, Dovercourt
No.84
Old Vicarage Farmhouse)

II

Two houses, formerly farmhouse. Mid C16 and early C17.
Timber-framed and rendered with clay plain tile roofs. Part
2-storey and part 1-storey with attics, with single storey
brick low pitched roofed extension on SW end (being rebuilt at
time of survey). Rectangular stack on ridgeline, between 2
major blocks and large C19 gabled dormer on SE roof slope of
lower part.
EXTERIOR: large C19 red brick enclosed porch with gabled roof.
Window frames generally removed at time of survey. The NE part
with lower eaves line is former small open hall house of mid
C16.
INTERIOR: this had single-bay hall, cross-passage and floored
chamber at NE end, separated by single-storey partition with
central door opening. Mixture of jowled and unjowled posts and
remnants of diamond mullioned windows and external wall
bracing. In late C16 hall was floored over with squarish
section, stop-chamfered floor joists and large inserted
bridging joists and spine beam. Roof has side purlins and
steep wind braces and suggests further short bay (chimney
stack?) at NE end. Large mantel beam at SW end possibly moved
from this earlier location.
To the SW, a 2-storey 2-bay timber-frame, slightly narrower
than foregoing and with external wall bracing rising from
posts to studs in a purely decorative fashion. Central
bridging joists carries stop-chamfered joists similar to those
inserted into earlier building. Tie-beam is unbraced and
structure provided one large room on each floor. Traces of
original window openings including one wide frieze window on
ground floor and window between two phases. (Was one building
moved here?) Roof with coupled rafters and collars much reused
material. Undergoing renovation at time of survey.

Listing NGR: TM2517631261

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26585945

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