Thorndikes and Former Stable and Coach House Adjoining
THORNDIKES AND FORMER STABLE AND COACH HOUSE ADJOINING, 60, ST MARGARET'S STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086441
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Thorndikes and Former Stable and Coach House Adjoining
- Statutory Address:
- THORNDIKES AND FORMER STABLE AND COACH HOUSE ADJOINING, 60, ST MARGARET'S STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086441
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1970
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Thorndikes and Former Stable and Coach House Adjoining
- Statutory Address 1:
- THORNDIKES AND FORMER STABLE AND COACH HOUSE ADJOINING, 60, ST MARGARET'S STREET
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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:
- THORNDIKES AND FORMER STABLE AND COACH HOUSE ADJOINING, 60, 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 74043 68100
Details
ROCHESTER ST MARGARET'S STREET TQ 7468 SW 9/238 No 60 (Thorndikes) and former stable and coach-house adjoining (formerly listed as The Vicarage and Stable 19-2-70 adjoining) GV II House, formerly the Rectory to St Margaret's. 1781 (possibly incorporating earlier work) with alterations of 1870. Brick (with some stone dressings); Kent tile hipped and gable-end roofs. Double depth, forming two separately roofed parallel ranges with end stacks, a side wing, and a stable and carriage house facing on to the street. Front: asymmetrical range; 2 dormers with Yorkshire sashes. Left-of-centre doorway (surround with pilasters, moulded canopy on shaped brackets, and panelled door); to the right a storeyed canted Victorian wing, with sandstone dressings, dentilled cornice and pierced parapet, string course between the storeys, rubbed brick elliptical window arches and 2:4:2 horned sashes. To the left, 2 window bays remain of a regular Georgian front, with sash windows in flush frames (glazing bars to 1st storey only), and rubbed brick flat arches. Projecting forward and to either side are the single- storey stable and coachhouse each with hipped roof and round- headed arched doorway (that to the right blocked). Side wing with sashes. Rear: regular 4-window range. 12-pane sashes under rubbed brick flat arches, and a C20 left-of-centre glazed door. The name of the house commemorates the fact that Dame Sybil Thorndike spent much of her childhood here when her father was Rector of St Margaret's.
Listing NGR: TQ7404368100
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 173171
- 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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