153,155 AND 157, HIGH STREET, 153,155 AND 157, EASTGATE

153,155 AND 157, EASTGATE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1086446
Date first listed:: 27-Sep-1990
List Entry Name:: 153,155 AND 157, HIGH STREET, 153,155 AND 157, EASTGATE
Statutory Address:: 153,155 AND 157, EASTGATE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1086446
Date first listed:: 27-Sep-1990
List Entry Name:: 153,155 AND 157, HIGH STREET, 153,155 AND 157, EASTGATE
Statutory Address 1:: 153,155 AND 157, EASTGATE
Statutory Address 2:: 153,155 AND 157, HIGH 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:: 153,155 AND 157, EASTGATE
Statutory Address:: 153,155 AND 157, HIGH 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 74540 68248

Details

ROCHESTER HIGH STREET TQ 7468 SE (EASTGATE) 10/149 Nos 153, 155 and 157 27.9.90 GV II Formerly 3 houses, now 3 shops. Mid C18, considerably altered. Timber framed; corrugated asbestos gambel roofs (3 ranges set end-on to street). 3 brick stacks, one to each ridge. All walls are now covered by applied plastered cladding with mock framing, wich replaces weatherboarding. 3 storeys. Front: 4-window range (1:1:2). Except for No 153 (2nd floor) all windows with flush surrounds and moulded cornices; all except for No 155 (2nd floor, 6 pane sash) with C20 replacement casements. Wooden modillion cornice. Shop fronts: late C19 to No 153, the fascia with end console brackets, C20 with plate glass window to No 155, and c.1900-style front to No 157 which returns right, into Almon Place. Right return also shares a late C20 plate glass shop front with glazed entrance with No 157A (not included in this listing). Rear treated as front with cladding and C20 windows. This building is included despite the C20 alterations because of the surviving timber frame.

Listing NGR: TQ7453968253

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Legacy System number:: 173079
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.