Oriel House With Forecourt and Garden Walls Attached
ORIEL HOUSE WITH FORECOURT AND GARDEN WALLS ATTACHED, THE PRECINCT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086425
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Oriel House With Forecourt and Garden Walls Attached
- Statutory Address:
- ORIEL HOUSE WITH FORECOURT AND GARDEN WALLS ATTACHED, THE PRECINCT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086425
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Oriel House With Forecourt and Garden Walls Attached
- Statutory Address 1:
- ORIEL HOUSE WITH FORECOURT AND GARDEN WALLS ATTACHED, 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:
- ORIEL HOUSE WITH FORECOURT AND GARDEN WALLS ATTACHED, 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 74236 68345
Details
ROCHESTER THE PRECINCT TQ 7468 SW 9/197 Oriel House with Forecourt and Garden Walls attached 24.10.74 GV II House. Mid-C18. Flemish bond plum coloured brick; Kent tile hipped roofs. Late English Baroque house in the 'Board of Ordnance' style. Double-depth plan with central open-well stair. 3 storeys, with basement to rear. Front: almost symmetrical, 3 bays, (1:1:1), the centre bay projecting under a pediment. Tall parapet with cornice band. Centre bay with 2nd floor Diocletian window with 6-pane sash; 1st floor with a tripartite arrangement of central round-headed sash window (10 panes above, 6 below) flanked by lower flat-arched blocked windows, a variant form of Venetian window, with plaster sill band; similar windows to ground floor, but with the side windows glazed. Side bays with 9-pane and 12 pane sash windows to 2nd and 1st floor respectively; ground floor has 2 flanking brick aedicules with pilasters under 2 concentric semi-circular brick arches and moulded wooden cornices, with 15-pane sash window to left, and 6-panel fielded door under fanlight to right. Plinth and 1st floor plat bands. Thick glazing bars, hornless sashes and rubbed brick window arches throughout. Central ridge stacks, and one external lateral stack to each side elevation; cornice and plat bands return, with sash windows to each floor. Rear: 4 bays with hornless sash windows and external shutters to ground and first floor, later 2-light casements to basement; flanking the main range are 2-bay hipped roof wings (one with Welsh slates) with 12-pane sashes (one converted to a glazed foor). Rubbed brick arches throughout, with returned cornice and plat band. Interior: central staircase with turned balusters, wreathed rail; several contemporary panelled doors with furniture including H-hinges and brass locks; a few contemporary fire surrounds. 2 canted forecourt brick walls attached at front are included in this listing.
Listing NGR: TQ7423668345
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 173129
- 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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