The following text is from the original listed building designation:
ROCHESTER HIGH STREET (St TQ 7468 SE Margaret's Banks) 10/92 No 276 (Anchor House) 24.10.50 II House. Early C18 incorporating an earlier (perhaps C17) structure. Plain coloured brick with red brick dressings; roof material not visible. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys. Front: regular 4-window range, the right-hand windows blank. Parapet with stone coping. Sashes in revealed frames (the left-hand sashes with 8-panes, the others with 12) under rubbed red brick window arches with shaped keyblocks. 2nd floor windows have rubbed red brick aprons in addition. Ground floor with tripartite segmental bowed window with pilaster divisions and flat modillion cornice. Good late C18 wooden doorcase (to left), pilasters, cornice, pediment, panelled reveals (the top 3 panels raised and fielded), and a 6-panelled door (the top 4 raised and fielded) and oval fanlight with glazing bars, are approached by stone swept steps with ramped iron rail. Interior undergoing major renovation work at time of re-survey (1989); some framing visible that may be C17, but full inspection not possible.
Listing NGR: TQ7479968019

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