diff --git a/config/ldp/metadata-writer/default.json b/config/ldp/metadata-writer/default.json
index 62dd7ade6..dad682d35 100644
--- a/config/ldp/metadata-writer/default.json
+++ b/config/ldp/metadata-writer/default.json
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
   "import": [
     "css:config/ldp/metadata-writer/writers/allow-accept.json",
     "css:config/ldp/metadata-writer/writers/constant.json",
+    "css:config/ldp/metadata-writer/writers/content-type.json",
     "css:config/ldp/metadata-writer/writers/link-rel.json",
     "css:config/ldp/metadata-writer/writers/mapped.json",
     "css:config/ldp/metadata-writer/writers/modified.json",
@@ -17,6 +18,7 @@
       "handlers": [
         { "@id": "urn:solid-server:default:MetadataWriter_AllowAccept" },
         { "@id": "urn:solid-server:default:MetadataWriter_Constant" },
+        { "@id": "urn:solid-server:default:MetadataWriter_ContentType" },
         { "@id": "urn:solid-server:default:MetadataWriter_Mapped" },
         { "@id": "urn:solid-server:default:MetadataWriter_Modified" },
         { "@id": "urn:solid-server:default:MetadataWriter_LinkRel" },
diff --git a/config/ldp/metadata-writer/writers/content-type.json b/config/ldp/metadata-writer/writers/content-type.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..747a0a3ed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/ldp/metadata-writer/writers/content-type.json
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+{
+  "@context": "https://linkedsoftwaredependencies.org/bundles/npm/@solid/community-server/^5.0.0/components/context.jsonld",
+  "@graph": [
+    {
+      "comment": "Adds the Content-Type header with value and parameters (if available).",
+      "@id": "urn:solid-server:default:MetadataWriter_ContentType",
+      "@type": "ContentTypeMetadataWriter"
+    }
+  ]
+}
diff --git a/config/ldp/metadata-writer/writers/mapped.json b/config/ldp/metadata-writer/writers/mapped.json
index c0cd6cbe6..45f4296a2 100644
--- a/config/ldp/metadata-writer/writers/mapped.json
+++ b/config/ldp/metadata-writer/writers/mapped.json
@@ -6,10 +6,6 @@
       "@id": "urn:solid-server:default:MetadataWriter_Mapped",
       "@type": "MappedMetadataWriter",
       "headerMap": [
-        {
-          "MappedMetadataWriter:_headerMap_key": "http://www.w3.org/ns/ma-ont#format",
-          "MappedMetadataWriter:_headerMap_value": "Content-Type"
-        },
         {
           "MappedMetadataWriter:_headerMap_key": "urn:npm:solid:community-server:http:location",
           "MappedMetadataWriter:_headerMap_value": "Location"
diff --git a/src/http/input/metadata/ContentTypeParser.ts b/src/http/input/metadata/ContentTypeParser.ts
index eb95ddb73..fddc713ed 100644
--- a/src/http/input/metadata/ContentTypeParser.ts
+++ b/src/http/input/metadata/ContentTypeParser.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ import { MetadataParser } from './MetadataParser';
 
 /**
  * Parser for the `content-type` header.
- * Currently only stores the media type and ignores other parameters such as charset.
  */
 export class ContentTypeParser extends MetadataParser {
   public async handle(input: { request: HttpRequest; metadata: RepresentationMetadata }): Promise<void> {
diff --git a/src/http/output/metadata/ContentTypeMetadataWriter.ts b/src/http/output/metadata/ContentTypeMetadataWriter.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d57809317
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/http/output/metadata/ContentTypeMetadataWriter.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+import type { HttpResponse } from '../../../server/HttpResponse';
+import type { RepresentationMetadata } from '../../representation/RepresentationMetadata';
+import { MetadataWriter } from './MetadataWriter';
+
+/**
+ * Adds the `Content-Type` header containing value and parameters (if available).
+ */
+export class ContentTypeMetadataWriter extends MetadataWriter {
+  public async handle(input: { response: HttpResponse; metadata: RepresentationMetadata }): Promise<void> {
+    const { contentTypeObject } = input.metadata;
+    if (contentTypeObject) {
+      input.response.setHeader('Content-Type', contentTypeObject.toHeaderValueString());
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/src/http/representation/RepresentationMetadata.ts b/src/http/representation/RepresentationMetadata.ts
index 2366b3ea2..22c8da74c 100644
--- a/src/http/representation/RepresentationMetadata.ts
+++ b/src/http/representation/RepresentationMetadata.ts
@@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ import { DataFactory, Store } from 'n3';
 import type { BlankNode, DefaultGraph, Literal, NamedNode, Quad, Term } from 'rdf-js';
 import { getLoggerFor } from '../../logging/LogUtil';
 import { InternalServerError } from '../../util/errors/InternalServerError';
-import type { ContentType } from '../../util/HeaderUtil';
-import { parseContentType } from '../../util/HeaderUtil';
+import { ContentType, parseContentType } from '../../util/HeaderUtil';
 import { toNamedTerm, toObjectTerm, isTerm, toLiteral } from '../../util/TermUtil';
 import { CONTENT_TYPE_TERM, CONTENT_LENGTH_TERM, XSD, SOLID_META, RDFS } from '../../util/Vocabularies';
 import type { ResourceIdentifier } from './ResourceIdentifier';
@@ -369,18 +368,16 @@ export class RepresentationMetadata {
       return;
     }
     const params = this.getAll(SOLID_META.terms.contentTypeParameter);
-    return {
-      value,
-      parameters: Object.fromEntries(params.map((param): [string, string] => {
-        const labels = this.store.getObjects(param, RDFS.terms.label, null);
-        const values = this.store.getObjects(param, SOLID_META.terms.value, null);
-        if (labels.length !== 1 || values.length !== 1) {
-          this.logger.error(`Detected invalid content-type metadata for ${this.id.value}`);
-          return [ 'invalid', '' ];
-        }
-        return [ labels[0].value, values[0].value ];
-      })),
-    };
+    const parameters = Object.fromEntries(params.map((param): [string, string] => {
+      const labels = this.store.getObjects(param, RDFS.terms.label, null);
+      const values = this.store.getObjects(param, SOLID_META.terms.value, null);
+      if (labels.length !== 1 || values.length !== 1) {
+        this.logger.error(`Detected invalid content-type metadata for ${this.id.value}`);
+        return [ 'invalid', '' ];
+      }
+      return [ labels[0].value, values[0].value ];
+    }));
+    return new ContentType(value, parameters);
   }
 
   private removeContentType(): void {
diff --git a/src/index.ts b/src/index.ts
index aec9ff246..449728fcd 100644
--- a/src/index.ts
+++ b/src/index.ts
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ export * from './http/output/error/SafeErrorHandler';
 // HTTP/Output/Metadata
 export * from './http/output/metadata/AllowAcceptHeaderWriter';
 export * from './http/output/metadata/ConstantMetadataWriter';
+export * from './http/output/metadata/ContentTypeMetadataWriter';
 export * from './http/output/metadata/LinkRelMetadataWriter';
 export * from './http/output/metadata/MappedMetadataWriter';
 export * from './http/output/metadata/MetadataWriter';
diff --git a/src/util/HeaderUtil.ts b/src/util/HeaderUtil.ts
index bc85e407c..915ed6879 100644
--- a/src/util/HeaderUtil.ts
+++ b/src/util/HeaderUtil.ts
@@ -106,9 +106,18 @@ export interface AcceptDatetime extends AcceptHeader { }
  * Contents of a HTTP Content-Type Header.
  * Optional parameters Record is included.
  */
-export interface ContentType {
-  value: string;
-  parameters: Record<string, string>;
+export class ContentType {
+  public constructor(public value: string, public parameters: Record<string, string> = {}) {}
+
+  /**
+   * Serialize this ContentType object to a ContentType header appropriate value string.
+   * @returns The value string, including parameters, if present.
+   */
+  public toHeaderValueString(): string {
+    return Object.entries(this.parameters)
+      .sort((entry1, entry2): number => entry1[0].localeCompare(entry2[0]))
+      .reduce((acc, entry): string => `${acc}; ${entry[0]}=${entry[1]}`, this.value);
+  }
 }
 
 export interface LinkEntryParameters extends Record<string, string> {
@@ -463,7 +472,7 @@ export function parseContentType(input: string): ContentType {
       prev.parameters[cur.name] = cur.value;
       return prev;
     },
-    { value, parameters: {}},
+    new ContentType(value),
   );
 }
 
diff --git a/test/integration/ContentNegotiation.test.ts b/test/integration/ContentNegotiation.test.ts
index 8573df15b..7ade49995 100644
--- a/test/integration/ContentNegotiation.test.ts
+++ b/test/integration/ContentNegotiation.test.ts
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ const baseUrl = `http://localhost:${port}`;
 const documents = [
   [ '/turtle', 'text/turtle', '# Test' ],
   [ '/markdown', 'text/markdown', '# Test' ],
+  [ '/plain', 'text/plain; charset=utf-8', '# Test' ],
 ];
 
 const cases: [string, string, string][] = [
@@ -27,6 +28,8 @@ const cases: [string, string, string][] = [
   [ '/markdown', 'text/html', 'text/html,*/*;q=0.8' ],
   [ '/markdown', 'text/html', 'text/markdown;q=0.1, text/html;q=0.9' ],
   [ '/markdown', 'application/octet-stream', 'application/octet-stream' ],
+  [ '/plain', 'text/plain; charset=utf-8', 'text/plain' ],
+  [ '/plain', 'text/plain; charset=utf-8', 'text/plain;q=0.1, text/markdown;q=0.9' ],
 ];
 
 describe('Content negotiation', (): void => {
diff --git a/test/unit/http/output/metadata/ContentTypeMetadataWriter.test.ts b/test/unit/http/output/metadata/ContentTypeMetadataWriter.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0ab61c7a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/unit/http/output/metadata/ContentTypeMetadataWriter.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+import { createResponse } from 'node-mocks-http';
+import { ContentTypeMetadataWriter } from '../../../../../src/http/output/metadata/ContentTypeMetadataWriter';
+import { RepresentationMetadata } from '../../../../../src/http/representation/RepresentationMetadata';
+import type { HttpResponse } from '../../../../../src/server/HttpResponse';
+
+describe('A ContentTypeMetadataWriter', (): void => {
+  const writer = new ContentTypeMetadataWriter();
+  let response: HttpResponse;
+
+  beforeEach(async(): Promise<void> => {
+    response = createResponse() as HttpResponse;
+  });
+
+  it('adds no header if there is no relevant metadata.', async(): Promise<void> => {
+    const metadata = new RepresentationMetadata();
+    await expect(writer.handle({ response, metadata })).resolves.toBeUndefined();
+    expect(response.getHeaders()).toEqual({ });
+  });
+
+  it('adds a Content-Type header with parameters if present.', async(): Promise<void> => {
+    const metadata = new RepresentationMetadata('text/plain; charset=utf-8');
+    await expect(writer.handle({ response, metadata })).resolves.toBeUndefined();
+
+    expect(response.getHeaders()).toEqual({
+      'content-type': 'text/plain; charset=utf-8',
+    });
+
+    const metadata2 = new RepresentationMetadata('text/plain; charset="utf-8"');
+    await expect(writer.handle({ response, metadata: metadata2 })).resolves.toBeUndefined();
+    expect(response.getHeaders()).toEqual({
+      'content-type': 'text/plain; charset=utf-8',
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('adds a Content-Type header without parameters.', async(): Promise<void> => {
+    const metadata = new RepresentationMetadata('text/plain');
+    await expect(writer.handle({ response, metadata })).resolves.toBeUndefined();
+
+    expect(response.getHeaders()).toEqual({
+      'content-type': 'text/plain',
+    });
+  });
+});
diff --git a/test/unit/http/representation/RepresentationMetadata.test.ts b/test/unit/http/representation/RepresentationMetadata.test.ts
index 7d82e78c1..d64e8f639 100644
--- a/test/unit/http/representation/RepresentationMetadata.test.ts
+++ b/test/unit/http/representation/RepresentationMetadata.test.ts
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import 'jest-rdf';
 import type { BlankNode } from 'n3';
 import { DataFactory } from 'n3';
 import type { NamedNode, Quad } from 'rdf-js';
+import { ContentType } from '../../../../src';
 import { RepresentationMetadata } from '../../../../src/http/representation/RepresentationMetadata';
 import { CONTENT_TYPE_TERM, SOLID_META, RDFS } from '../../../../src/util/Vocabularies';
 const { defaultGraph, literal, namedNode, quad } = DataFactory;
@@ -320,13 +321,13 @@ describe('A RepresentationMetadata', (): void => {
     it('has a shorthand for Content-Type as object.', async(): Promise<void> => {
       expect(metadata.contentType).toBeUndefined();
       expect(metadata.contentTypeObject).toBeUndefined();
-      metadata.contentTypeObject = {
-        value: 'text/plain',
-        parameters: {
+      metadata.contentTypeObject = new ContentType(
+        'text/plain',
+        {
           charset: 'utf-8',
           test: 'value1',
         },
-      };
+      );
       expect(metadata.contentTypeObject).toEqual({
         value: 'text/plain',
         parameters: {
diff --git a/test/unit/util/HeaderUtil.test.ts b/test/unit/util/HeaderUtil.test.ts
index bb305585e..e8eb77f74 100644
--- a/test/unit/util/HeaderUtil.test.ts
+++ b/test/unit/util/HeaderUtil.test.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import type { HttpResponse } from '../../../src/server/HttpResponse';
 import { BadRequestHttpError } from '../../../src/util/errors/BadRequestHttpError';
-import {
+import { ContentType,
   addHeader,
   hasScheme,
   matchesAuthorizationScheme,
@@ -11,8 +11,7 @@ import {
   parseAcceptLanguage,
   parseContentType,
   parseForwarded,
-  parseLinkHeader,
-} from '../../../src/util/HeaderUtil';
+  parseLinkHeader } from '../../../src/util/HeaderUtil';
 
 describe('HeaderUtil', (): void => {
   describe('#parseAccept', (): void => {
@@ -469,4 +468,21 @@ describe('HeaderUtil', (): void => {
       expect(hasScheme('wss://example.com', 'http', 'WSS')).toBeTruthy();
     });
   });
+  describe('A ContentType instance', (): void => {
+    it('can serialize to a correct header value string with parameters.', (): void => {
+      const contentType: ContentType = new ContentType(
+        'text/plain',
+        {
+          charset: 'utf-8',
+          extra: 'test',
+        },
+      );
+      expect(contentType.toHeaderValueString()).toBe('text/plain; charset=utf-8; extra=test');
+    });
+
+    it('can serialize to a correct header value string without parameters.', (): void => {
+      const contentType: ContentType = new ContentType('text/plain');
+      expect(contentType.toHeaderValueString()).toBe('text/plain');
+    });
+  });
 });