296 AND 298, HIGH STREET, 296 AND 298, ST MARGARET'S BANKS
296 AND 298, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086464
- Date first listed:
- 20-Mar-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 296 AND 298, HIGH STREET, 296 AND 298, ST MARGARET'S BANKS
- Statutory Address:
- 296 AND 298, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086464
- Date first listed:
- 20-Mar-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 296 AND 298, HIGH STREET, 296 AND 298, ST MARGARET'S BANKS
- Statutory Address 1:
- 296 AND 298, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- 296 AND 298, ST MARGARET'S BANKS
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:
- 296 AND 298, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 296 AND 298, ST MARGARET'S BANKS
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 74865 67982
Details
ROCHESTER HIGH STREET St TQ 7467 NE Margaret's Banks) 12/96 Nos 296 and 298 20.3.72 GV II Two houses, now offices. C17 in part, considerably altered late C20. Timber-framed with brick end walls and underbuilding; weatherboarding to 1st floor throughout (all re-clad in 1980s); Kent-tile gabled-end roofs. Front range (each house separately roofed) with rear wings. 2 storeys and attic. Front: entirely rebuilt in 1980s 4-window range (2:2) 2-light hipped dormer to No 298. 12-pane horned sashes in revealed frames to 1st floor. 1st floor jettied and supported on corbelled brick piers. 2 shop fronts with barred windows. Rear wing has a jettied 2nd floor gabled attic room with a 2-light casement, and a canted oriel supported by C17 caryatid brackets; otherwise the windows are sashes in revealed frames and casements, all renewed. Ridge stack. Interior not fully inspected but appears to have a few remaining contemporary features to ground-floor.
Listing NGR: TQ7486167984
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 173026
- 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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