343 AND 345, HIGH STREET

343 AND 345, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1116104
Date first listed:
23-Aug-1974
List Entry Name:
343 AND 345, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:
343 AND 345, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1116104
Date first listed:
23-Aug-1974
List Entry Name:
343 AND 345, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 1:
343 AND 345, 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
343 AND 345, 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 75112 67933

Details

ROCHESTER HIGH STREET (NORTH) TQ 7567 NW 13/160 Nos 343 and 345 23-8-74 GV II Pair of houses with original shop fronts. Early C19. Painted brick, slate roof. 3 storeys. 2 bays each. No 343 has ground floor shop front of 4 slightly canted plate glass windows with muntin divisions and arched heads, 2 fluted pilasters to door and to angle, canted frieze and projecting cornice. No 345 has 2 outer muntin divisions only of original shop windows, canted frieze and cornice survives. Doorway on angle 12-pane sashes in reveals to 1st floor; 2nd floor sashes with some glazing bars missing to No 343, the sashes completely removed from No 345 (February 1989). Cornice band and parapet with stone coping. Deep return facades have side access doors to houses above shops, fluted pilasters and reveals survive at No 345 only, with distinctive 16 pane sashes running through the storeys above. Staircase in situ.

Listing NGR: TQ7511067936

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
173089
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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