Former County Court With Gatepiers Attached
FORMER COUNTY COURT WITH GATEPIERS ATTACHED, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086451
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Former County Court With Gatepiers Attached
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER COUNTY COURT WITH GATEPIERS ATTACHED, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086451
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Former County Court With Gatepiers Attached
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER COUNTY COURT WITH GATEPIERS ATTACHED, HIGH 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:
- FORMER COUNTY COURT WITH GATEPIERS ATTACHED, 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 74677 68150
Details
ROCHESTER HIGH STREET TQ 7468 SE 10/157 Former County Court with gatepiers attached II Former Court house and offices. Dated 1862. Flemish bond red brick with gault and black brick and stone dressings. Welsh slate hipped roofs with bargeboarded gablet. High Victorian polychrome Gothic; double pile plan (offices to the street-side block, the 1st floor court room to the taller rear block) aligned E-W, with a NW entrance tower (with spire). 2 storeys. Regular 5-window range to High Street. All windows of 2 lights, with stone mullions and surrounds, flat window arches to 1st floor, cambered (and brick) to ground, the lights themselves with moulded shouldered arches. 4-pane horned sashes. Doorway to right, stone architrave with shouldered head, and tracery fanlight under 2-centered brick arch. Gault and black brick banding at 1st floor and eaves levels. Corbelled stone eaves cornice. Porch under tower (2 stages), rectangular plan; 3 ground floor stilted, cambered arches of 2 orders, deeply cut stone capitals; arch to left (W) with 3 light window, entrance arches (N and S) with royal coat-of-arms over S. Decorated style 2-light windows to upper stage. Bracketted eaves. Leaded spire with broach base and saddle-back apex with cresting and weather-vane. Polychrome banding at line of springers to arches, and to eaves. 2 gatepiers attached at front (gates replaced). Rear court-room range: 1st floor with 2-light Decorated style tracery windows. Cast-iron rainwater goods. 2 prominent end stacks to rear range, and a truncated ridge stack to front. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ7467868150
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 173086
- 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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