30, HIGH STREET
30, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086489
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 30, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 30, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
- 2004-02-09
- Reference:
- IOE01/11399/30
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086489
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 30, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 30, 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:
- 30, 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 74234 68692
Details
ROCHESTER HIGH STREET TQ 7468 NW 7/51 No 30 23.8.74 GV II Shop, formerly a pair of houses with shops. Early C16 with C17 and later alterations. Timber framed with plaster render; Kent clay tile roof. Two short identical jettied face the street and are attached at the rear to a cross wing that occupies the full width of the site; it appears to be of a single build (see the wall plate of the jettied ranges securely morticed into the front wall plate of the cross wing). The principal domestic quarters (certainly by the C17) were situated in the crosswing. 2 storeys with attic. Exterior. Front: 4 window range, the old work symmetrical, with 2 gables. C20 shop front retaining C19 panelled pilasters. Jettied 1st floor (with exposed joists); widely-placed studs and interrupted rail at window sill level; 2-light casement windows (with latticed leading); ovolo-moulded surrounds and mullions, one window only original. Prominent bracketed guttering box. Weatherboarding to rear with 3 hornless sash windows. Interior. Much original framing visible with large downard braces both to external walls and internal partitions; central closed partition runs from street to rear wall, moulded to front ranges (cyma and cavetto); scroll and hollow step stops to ceiling beams, joists largely intact. At rear a complete wooden panelled room, c.1600; 4 tiers stile and muntin panels divided by Ionic pilasters with strapwork and fluted shafts; dentil cornice with consoles. Fireplace overmantel has 2 arched compartments, one with trompe l'oeil perspective; strapwork pilaster divisions, and flanked by paired terms on plith. Roof: probably side purlin.
Listing NGR: TQ7423368691
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 172982
- 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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