Grafton House
90, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086495
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Grafton House
- Statutory Address:
- 90, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086495
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Grafton House
- Statutory Address 1:
- 90, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- GRAFTON HOUSE, 92, 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:
- 90, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- GRAFTON HOUSE, 92, 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 74365 68476
Details
ROCHESTER HIGH STREET TQ 7468 9/68 Nos 90 and 92 (Grafton House) 24.10.50 GV II Former large town house, now offices. First quarter of C18. Brick with stucco dressings; roof material not visible. Double- dept house with centre-left stairs and rear service wing. Lateral stacks. 3 storeys. Almost symmetrical 5-windowfront range with end pilasters; parapet and fine moulded wooden dentil cornice. All windows with 4-pane horned sashes in revealed frames under rubbed brick flat arches with shaped keyblocks; between the upper floors an interrupted moulded brick cornice, the centre section with keyblock. The ground floor with rusticated stucco throughout; pilasters to either end and flanking slightly off-centre doorway, the door with pierced panels and rectangular overlight. Windows, with modern fixed barred glazing. Between ground and 1st floor a moulded stucco cornice which continues to either side across (to the left) a single-storey annexe with side door and shop window with glazing bars and (to the right) an entrance that led originally into the side entry now occupied by offices. Above each side section of cornice is a shaped gabled parapet. Left return with windows either blocked or with hornless sashes. Right return with plat bands and shallow external stack. Rear with some sash windows. Interior: dog-leg stair with turned balusters and square-section newels with caps and pendants; ground floor with some wainscotting (large raised and fielded panels) visible and more probably obscured; internal round-headed arch with keyblock to hall; some panelled doors with H-hinges and internal shutters, top floor with framed ceiling, the chamfered beams with scroll stops.
Listing NGR: TQ7436168483
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 172999
- 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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