Cloister House
CLOISTER HOUSE, THE PRECINCT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086422
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Cloister House
- Statutory Address:
- CLOISTER HOUSE, THE PRECINCT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086422
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Cloister House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLOISTER HOUSE, THE PRECINCT
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CLOISTER HOUSE, THE PRECINCT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Medway (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 74265 68448
Details
ROCHESTER THE PRECINCT TQ 7468 SW 9/192 Cloister House (formerly listed as College Green) 24.10.50 GV II Houses (belonging to Cathedral). Late C19. Red brick, 1st floor title hung, with tiled gabled-end roof. Attached at left to Garth House (qv). 2 storeys. 6 window range. Paired or tripe lancets to 1st floor in wooden frames. 4 paired and one set of 4 lancets in stone flush surrounds with transoms to ground floor; off-centre doorway with simple pointed doorway. Internal porch with tripartite doorway. One large ridge stack and an external end stack that breaks through the heavy barge-boarding at right; single lancets to either side; upper floor slightly jettied. Rear wing with similar detailing. Asymmetrical rear elevation with 2 tall stacks, and a variety of casement windows, some with trefoil heads. Cloister House rises above the S wall of the cloister buildings, see ref 9/188.
Listing NGR: TQ7426768444
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 173124
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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