ROCHESTER ST MARGARET'S STREET TQ 7468 SW 9/238 No 60 (Thorndikes) and former stable and coach-house adjoining (formerly listed as The Vicarage and Stable 19-2-70 adjoining) GV II House, formerly the Rectory to St Margaret's. 1781 (possibly incorporating earlier work) with alterations of 1870. Brick (with some stone dressings); Kent tile hipped and gable-end roofs. Double depth, forming two separately roofed parallel ranges with end stacks, a side wing, and a stable and carriage house facing on to the street. Front: asymmetrical range; 2 dormers with Yorkshire sashes. Left-of-centre doorway (surround with pilasters, moulded canopy on shaped brackets, and panelled door); to the right a storeyed canted Victorian wing, with sandstone dressings, dentilled cornice and pierced parapet, string course between the storeys, rubbed brick elliptical window arches and 2:4:2 horned sashes. To the left, 2 window bays remain of a regular Georgian front, with sash windows in flush frames (glazing bars to 1st storey only), and rubbed brick flat arches. Projecting forward and to either side are the single- storey stable and coachhouse each with hipped roof and round- headed arched doorway (that to the right blocked). Side wing with sashes. Rear: regular 4-window range. 12-pane sashes under rubbed brick flat arches, and a C20 left-of-centre glazed door. The name of the house commemorates the fact that Dame Sybil Thorndike spent much of her childhood here when her father was Rector of St Margaret's. Listing NGR: TQ7404368100