Christopher Jones' House: The Exploration, Conservation and Repair of 21-21A King's Head Street, Harwich

Built in about 1475, and in parts possibly much earlier, this typical East Anglian timber framed building was home to Christopher Jones, the famous captain of the ship Mayflower which took the Pilgrim Fathers to Cape Cod in 1620, returning in 1621. It was previously his father's house and the more famous son enlarged the house to its present extent by joining two nearly contiguous medieval houses to benefit his growing family and status as a burgess of the borough of Harwich. The building o...