OLD ST MARGARET'S THE KING'S SCHOOL

OLD ST MARGARET'S, ST MARGARET'S STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1086435
Date first listed:: 24-Oct-1950
List Entry Name:: OLD ST MARGARET'S THE KING'S SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: OLD ST MARGARET'S, ST MARGARET'S STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1086435
Date first listed:: 24-Oct-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 02-Dec-1990
List Entry Name:: OLD ST MARGARET'S THE KING'S SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: OLD ST MARGARET'S, ST MARGARET'S STREET
Statutory Address 2:: THE KING'S SCHOOL, ST MARGARET'S STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: OLD ST MARGARET'S, ST MARGARET'S STREET
Statutory Address:: THE KING'S SCHOOL, ST MARGARET'S STREET

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 74109 68300

Details

ROCHESTER ST MARGARET ' S TQ 7468 SW STREET (King's School) 9/218 Old St Margaret's 24.10.50 (The King's School)(form erly listed as Eastern Block) GV II* Former almshouses, now school rooms. Dated 1724. Flemish bond red brick; Kent tile hipped roof. 2 storeys with attics, 9 bays. Ground floor has 7 and first floor 8 L-pane sashes with glazing bars under segmental rubbed brick arches (ground) and flat rubbed brick arches (first floor), brick aprons below openings. 3 arched heads to basement area windows. Central brick doorcase with entablature, stuccoed architrave surround with 6 penel raised and fielded door, 2 upper panels glazed. Tablet under segmental rubbed brick arch with inscription:- "This house for the reception education and employment of the poor of this parish was erected in ADl724. Toward which the Honourable Sir John Jennings and Sir Thomas Colby Representatives of this city voluntarily contributed £200. It was finished and supported out of a perpetual charity formerly given by Mr Richard Watts for the purpose. Mr J Parnell and Mr Mordaunt, Churchwardens"

Wooden moulded eaves cornice, hipped roof with hipped dormers with louvred wood slats. Stacks above survive. One south end gable stack and 2 back-to-back stacks at east adjacent c1800 rear build. Hipped wing attached at north east rear. Interior: Converted into 2 storey schoolrooms in C19. Attics have 1724 boarded and lath and plaster partitions in sleeping cubicles. Early Cl6 wall of Bihop's Court attached at north 9gv).

Listing NGR: TQ7411068303

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Legacy System number:: 173151
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.