ROCHESTER HIGH STREET TQ 7468 7/61 No 60 (including those parts at 24.10.50 rear facing College Green) GV II* House with restaurant below. Multi-phase building of C15, C16 and C17 with later alterations. Timber-framed with rubble ragstone to basement; the building abuts Chertsey's Gate to the right-hand side. Kent tiled roof. Internal stacks 2 storeys and attic. Plan and development: complicated as each unit extensively remodelled at different times. Now a 3-unit plan set end-on towards High Street. Originally a C15 2-unit plan with an early C16 room added to rear (ie to the cathedral side of the line of the precinct wall). Original horizontal planking visible at all floor levels. Ground floor raised but original beams with joist mortices survive in basement. Front unit remodelled in C17 (when re-roofed: see verges). Crown-post roof to middle unit (much altered when roof re-aligned). Former end bracing of the C15 house visible in roof. Inserted lateral stairs. Exterior: Front: 1st floor jettied; framing all renewed with rough cast infill. Shop windows with glazing bars and C19 surrounds to either side of central half-glazed double door. 2 1st floor 12- pane sash windows, and another to attic, all under moulded lintels. Carved bargeboards may be C17. College Yard elevation; 1st floor jetty stope short or rear face of Chertsey's Gate and into this small space is squeezed a narrow casement window. To left of panelled door is a 12-pane hornless sash window; to right a large shallow bow window with glazing bars. 1st floor bargeboarded with 16 pane hornless sash window. Jetty beam decorated with foliage carving (similar to ceiling beams inside) with zig-zag and intersecting frieze. 2-light gabled dormer. Interior: good early C16 framed ceiling to rear room with foliage carving to beams, moulded joists. Linenfold panelling. A crenellated beam (possibly C15) between middle and rear rooms is not in situ. Fireplace with simple surround and Dutch tiling. 1st floor: mould tie beam; ceiling beams chamfered and stopped. Some C18 fixtures. Listing NGR: TQ7429668597