ROCHESTER HIGH STREET TQ 7468 NW 7/56 No 44 24.10.50 GV II House with shop (not used as a dwelling at time of re-survey, 1988). Substantially late C16, re-modelled in the late C17 with C19 and C20 alterations. Timber framed with weatherboarding and brick cladding, and rubble plinth to side elevation. Kent tile gable end roof. Lateral brick stack. 2 unit end jetty plan, sub-divided into 3 units when present stairs inserted in late C17. 2 storeys and attic. 2 window range standing end-on to High Street. Front, weatherboarded throughout, deep 1st floor jetty. All windows with moulded wooden cornices and surrounds; hornless sashes (6 panes to single attic window, 12 panes elsewhere). Late C19 shop window, curved to corner with Two Posts Alley. Slender vertical glazing posts, contemporary door with modern glazing. Tiled floor to entrance. Left-hand return weatherboarded. Right hand return with brick and plaster infill; small 2-light casement window to 2nd floor, 12-pane hornless sash to 1st; windows blocked to ground floor. Side wall continues as rubble plinth and contains a C16 doorway, possibly not in situ, square-headed with cyma-recta moulded surround and chalice stops. (Note: the roof above this side is sprocketted, and the jettying towards Two Posts Alley represents a later alteration and is not part of the original plan; part of the rear extension may have been removed). Rear with 2-light attic casement window and 12- pane hornless sash to 1st and ground floor; weatherboarded throughout. Interior: little visible at ground floor level. Framing intact to 1st and 2nd floors. Principal intersecting ceiling beams (chamfered and stopped) divide the building into 2 rooms to each floor; later partitions introduced when lateral stair inserted; framed newel stair with turned balusters and ball finials (many missing) on square-section newels; side purlin roof with wind braces. Some later furnishings survive: late C18 fireplace with panelled frieze, dentilled cornice and moulded surround; moulded corner cupboard; some plank doors with spur hinges. Listing NGR: TQ7425868652