The Limes and Garden Wall to North Attached
THE LIMES AND GARDEN WALL TO NORTH ATTACHED, 52, ST MARGARET'S STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1086439
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1950
- List Entry Name:
- The Limes and Garden Wall to North Attached
- Statutory Address:
- THE LIMES AND GARDEN WALL TO NORTH ATTACHED, 52, ST MARGARET'S STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1086439
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1950
- List Entry Name:
- The Limes and Garden Wall to North Attached
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE LIMES AND GARDEN WALL TO NORTH ATTACHED, 52, ST MARGARET'S STREET
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:
- THE LIMES AND GARDEN WALL TO NORTH ATTACHED, 52, 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 74067 68182
Details
ROCHESTER ST MARGARET'S STREET TQ 7468 SW 9/231 No 52 (The Limes) and garden wall to 24.10.50 north attached GV II* Former house, now offices. Late C17 with mid. C19 range to rear. Timber-framed and brick clad to older range, brick throughout to rear range; Kent-tile roofs. Plan: 2 parallel ranges of unequal height stand gable end-on to street, with high-status ground floor room to left, and central stairs to rear. Rear and lateral stacks. Behind this, a mid. C19 range running parallel to street under hipped roof with end stack. C17 build of 2 storeys and attic; rear range of 3 storeys. Front: plastered 2 gabled bays, the taller range with entrance to right. The latter with doorway in surround with reveals and panelled door; 1st floor with late C18 bowed oriel, 8:12:8 hornless sashes under cornice; 1 2-pane hornless sash with flush frame to gable wall. Left-hand range with 2 16-pane hornless sashes under continuous lintel to ground, another, set off-centre to 1st floor, and a 12-pane sash to gable wall.
Right return with later brick underpinning; 1 sash window, the others replaced, with a doorway (surround and bracketed canopy) giving in to short projecting rear extension of C17 range and set under catslide. Rear: regular 4-window range, 12 and 16-pane hornless sashes in reveals to upper and ground floors respectively, the latter with external shutters. Right-of-centre doorway with panelled reveals, attached Doric columns, canopy and glazed door (C20, with glazing bars). Interior: fine plaster detailing (ground floor, left), of c.1690s, with central oval relief containing foliage and fruit set in a square frame; internal doorcase with pediment and shouldered surround. Rear central open-wall stair, one turned baluster to each tread, square-section newels, panelled string, and with little Doric columns supporting the landings; stepped panelled wainscoting. Elsewhere much contemporary joinery (especially panelled doors, some with H-hinges), and a good bolection moulded chimney-piece. C19 rear range with door surrounds and other joinery.
Listing NGR: TQ7406468183
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 173164
- 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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