Listed Building record TQ 76 NW 562 - ROCHESTER HEAD POST OFFICE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1908 to 1908

Location

Grid reference TQ 7458 6822 (point)
Map sheet TQ76NW
County KENT
Unitary Authority MEDWAY

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
ROCHESTER HIGH STREET TQ 7468 SE (EASTGATE) 10/151 Rochester Head Post Office GV II Head post office. 1908, architect now known. Gault brick with red brick and lime-stone dressings; Welsh slate roof with 2 tall ridge stacks. 2 storeys. Front: almost symmetrical, 5 bays, bays 2 and 4 slightly projecting. Parapet with stone coping: moulded dentil cornice. 1st floor: horned sashes in exposed frames, all with glazing bars, the windows to the outer bays and the tripartite window to centre with rubbed brick surrounds and keystones those to bays 2 and 4 stone shouldered architraves; continuous sill band; rubbed brick aprons to 1 and 5, stone go 2 and 4, the atter set on the ground floor cornice. Entrance to bay 2, deeply recessed winow to 4, otherwise identical with Tuscan columns and entablatures that connect over centre tripartite window arrangement. Continuous stone plinth that rises in outer bays to form aprons to sash windows (as above in rubbed brick surround). Modern central dormer. A thoughtful, good-quality design.
Listing NGR: TQ7443168361


English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

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Record last edited

Feb 19 2008 12:26PM