Whitefriars
WHITEFRIARS, BOLEY HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086514
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Whitefriars
- Statutory Address:
- WHITEFRIARS, BOLEY HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086514
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Whitefriars
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITEFRIARS, BOLEY HILL
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:
- WHITEFRIARS, BOLEY HILL
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 74077 68534
Details
ROCHESTER BOLEY HILL TQ 7468 NW 7/12 Whitefriars 19.2.70 GV II House. Early C19. Stuccoed brick; Welsh slate hipped roof. 2 and 2 1/2 storeys. Front: original house symmetrical 3 bays, the centre bay taller by a half storey, and curved. 12-pane hornless sashes in reveals to side bays, tripartite curved 8:8:8 sashes to centre bay (4:4:4 to upper half storey. Some graffito decoration to window arches, parapet and cornice band to centre only. Storeyed extension to left with parapet and blocked windows, and with sash windows to left return. Tall axial stacks. The rear wall forms a party wall with The Friars (qv). Whitefriars is one of several houses overlooking the Medway that present main front towards the river. When listed in July 1969 this property was known as Diocesan House.
Listing NGR: TQ7407768534
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 172939
- 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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