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© Mr Wilfred N. Winder
IoE Number:
366522
Location:
OLD NAVAL YARD CRANE, HARWICH GREEN
HARWICH, TENDRING, ESSEX
Photographer:
Mr Wilfred N. Winder
Date Photographed:
15 July 2002
Date listed:
25 September 1951
Date of last amendment:
25 September 1951
Grade
II*
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HARWICH
TM2632SW HARWICH GREEN
609-1/3/47 Old Naval Yard Crane
25/09/51
II*
Crane. 1667. Originally constructed in old Navy Yard but much
rebuilt and moved here in 1930. 'House Crane' of
timber-framing with clay pantile hipped roof and semicircular
curved felt roof over projecting boom. Walls are black
weatherboarded over lower two-thirds and open framed above. 4
bays of substantial framing with reversed assembly, St Andrews
cross bracing in ends, mid rail girts and 2 front bays have
inverted knees on sole plate. Centrally mounted axle for pair
of 5m diameter treadwheels which incorporate old clasping
spokes, stop-chamfered and with carpenter's marks. Top plate
has LA, WR 1799 inscribed on soffit. In front is a raked and
braced boom, mounted on vertical pivoting post with hanging
knee strengthening the spandrel. The boom has scallop-shaped
moulding and ogee on soffit, which could be C17. Probably
oldest surviving structure of its kind in Britain.
(RCHME: Essex NE: 1922-: 134 (2)).