Listed Building record TQ 76 NW 562 - ROCHESTER HEAD POST OFFICE
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Location
Grid reference | TQ 7458 6822 (point) |
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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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- --- SKE16160 Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
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Record last edited
Feb 19 2008 12:26PM