Listed Building record TQ 76 NW 556 - 300, 300A AND 302 HIGH STREET

Summary

Grade II listed building. Houses, now offices, part 17th century with considerable alterations in the 20th century. It has a timber frame with brick end walls and under building, and a Kent tile roof with gable ends. There are two storeys, plus attics. The front elevation was entirely re-built in the 1980's, there are two shop windows and a jettied first floor with four sash windows. To the rear there is a jettied and gabled attic room and a canted oriel window supported by 17th century caryatid brackets.

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Grid reference TQ 7487 6797 (point)
Map sheet TQ76NW
Civil Parish ROCHESTER & CHATHAM, MEDWAY, KENT
County KENT
Unitary Authority MEDWAY

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
ROCHESTER HIGH STREET St TQ 7467 NE Margaret's Banks) 12/97 Nos 300, 300A and 302 24.10.50 GV II Pair of houses. Mid C18. Flemish bond red brick; Kent tile roof. Double-depth plan with end gable stacks. 3 storeys. Front: symmetrical, 4 bays; 3 storey tripartite canted bays with central 12-pane and outer 8-pane sashes to ground and 1st floor, 6-pane centre and 4-pane outer sashes to 2nd floor. Projecting wooden architrave with cornice to ground and 1st floor windows only. All original sashes except to ground and 1st floor of No 300. Between the canted bays the centre windows with sashes in reveals under rubbed brick flat arches, 12 panes to 1st, 6 panes to 2nd floor. 2 doorways approached by flights of stone stairs are divided by an arched central alley passage with architrave surround and glazing bar fanlight. 2 Tuscan Doric doorcases with bases and capitals, three-quarter columns and panelled reveals, triglyph frieze broken forward over columns, dentils and pediments. Eaves level wooden console bracket cornice broken forward over each canted bay. Stone coping to parapet. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ7487667974 (1)

Historic England archive material: BF104686 296-300 HIGH STREET, ROCHESTER


<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

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  • <1> Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.

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  • Non-Intrusive Event: Investigation by RCHME/EH Architectural Survey (EKE19937)

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Oct 30 2025 11:37AM