Listed Building record TQ 76 NW 681 - 170 HIGH STREET
Summary
Location
Grid reference | TQ 7451 6825 (point) |
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Map sheet | TQ76NW |
County | KENT |
Unitary Authority | MEDWAY |
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
ROCHESTER HIGH STREET TQ 7468 SE (EASTGATE) 10/86 No 170 3.10.90 GV II Former house, now a shop. Mid C17 with late C18 front. Partly timber-framed at rear. Flemish bond red brick front; Kent-tile roof. Plan clear on 1st floor, 3 units to front block the 2 E bays with dividing stack, the W bay with stairs. 3 storeys. Front: regular 3-window range. Edwardian style shopfront dated 1982. 1st and 2nd floors with 4-pane horned sashes in revealed frames under cambered arches. Stone coped parapet renewed. Stuccoed side wall (left) with 2 windows. Brick rear gable with 2 1st floor windows of 12 and 16 panes. Outshut continues to W. Interior: Mid C17 dogleg stair runs through 3 storeys and is of ambitious proportions with urn and shaft balusters on stout rectangular plinths, abutted newels to each angle, alternately rectangular or rounded. 1st floor front chamber has ovolo- moulded and stopped chamfered spine and cross beams, early C18 part box wooden cornice, part dado panelling. Rear chamber has stopped and chamfered cross beam. 2nd floor rear room has partly exposed 4-centred chamfered fireplace bressumer, perhaps re-used. Some timber framing (angle wall posts and wall plates) exposed.
Listing NGR: TQ7451468252
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