Description from record TQ 76 NW 80 :
(TQ 74486830 - O.S. 1:2500 1970) HIGH STREET South West Side I No. 150 I No. 152 I No. 154 Early C17 one house of 3 storeys with overhanging floors, 3 gables. Framed construction with carved brackets, soffits and posts and moulded horizontal ties. Mullioned and transomed windows, some being bays on brackets. Ground floor shops, 150 with suitable glazing. Tile roof with a dormer, panelled brick chimneys. Side elevation of one gable and late C17 formal brick elevations with hipped roofing and also later additions. This house was used by Dickens as Uncle Pumblechook's house in "Great Expectations" and Dr. Sapsea's house in "Edwin Drood". (1) HIGH STREET (EASTGATE) Nos 150,152 and 154. Formerly a large town house, now 3 shops with flats above. Mid C17, restored in 1864. half timbered with brick cladding and extensions to rear; Kent tile gable end roofs. [Full architectural description] LISTED GRADE I. Additional architectural reference. (a) (2)

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
ROCHESTER HIGH STREET TQ 7568 SW (EASTGATE) 9/80 Nos 150, 152 and 154 24.10.50 GV I Formerly a large town house, now 3 shops with flats above. Mid C17, restored in 1864. Half timbered with brick cladding and extensions to rear; Kent tile gable-end roofs. 3 storeys and attic. Almost symmetrical 3 bays, each gabled, the 2nd and attic storeys jettied; the 1st floor was originally jettied, too, before the insertion of the shop fronts. All uprights carved with geometric decoration; plain rails (2 to each floor). gable walls each with one 2-light Yorkshire sash window with glazing bars; bargeboarding and apex finials dated 1864. 1st and 2nd floors both with oriels, one to each bay and set off-centre, canted 1:5:1 (to side bays), 1:8:1 (to middle bay), with transom and mullions (including a king mullion to centre oriel), ovolo moulded and supported on caved console brackets. Between the two right-hand bays and in line with enriched brick ridge stack, a 5-light window to each floor with transom and mullions. All windows with glazing bars and a small number of casements. C20 shop fronts with wooden surrounds and plate glass windows, that to No 150 (to right) with glazing bars and panelled plinth. Right-hand return with jettied attic, a 5-light casement window to gable wall; 1st and 2nd floor canted oriels continuous, 1:5:1 with transom and mullions. Brick underpinning. Rear: various elements under catslides; 2 separately hipped wings, one with massive ridge stack; lower gabled extensions. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ7447368302 (4)

<1> DOE(HHR)Dist of City of Rochester Kent July 1969 15 (OS Card Reference). SKE41296.

<2> DOE(HHR)Dist of Rochester upon Medway, 2nd Dec 1991 44 (OS Card Reference). SKE41338.

<3> Newman J(1980)The Building of England:West Kent and the Weald. 496 (OS Card Reference). SKE47539.

<4> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.