Medway Adult Education Centre
MEDWAY ADULT EDUCATION CENTRE, CORPORATION STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185301
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Medway Adult Education Centre
- Statutory Address:
- MEDWAY ADULT EDUCATION CENTRE, CORPORATION STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185301
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Medway Adult Education Centre
- Statutory Address 1:
- MEDWAY ADULT EDUCATION CENTRE, CORPORATION 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:
- MEDWAY ADULT EDUCATION CENTRE, CORPORATION 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 74535 68331
Details
ROCHESTER CORPORATION STREET TQ 7468 10/20 Medway Adult Education Centre GV II Formerly the Rochester Technical Institute, now an Adult Education Centre. 1905-6 by S B Russell and Edwin Cooper. 'Neo- English Baroque' style. Red brick with limestone ashlar dressings; welsh slate hipped roof. Plan: central entrance with rear centre Imperial stair and large 1st floor hall to centre front; classrooms and smaller offices with top-lit attic studios. Main block, 2½ storeys and attic. Front: (W), 2:3:2 bays all under prominent dentil cornice. Centre bays project; cornice brought out over 4 giant pilasters that are rusticated below a ground-floor lintel band (that continues around the rest of the building). Entrance recessed, the pilasters associated with Tuscan columns to form a 3-bay portico. Late C20 glazed doors flanked by sash windows. 1st floor sashed windows with moulded architraves and cornices. Below the main cornice to each bay a blank panel flanked by garlands. Side bays with rusticated brick quoins, sashes with exposed frames in rubbed brick surrounds with keystone, and metal-framed oculi to upper half storey. 20 and 24-pane sashes to ground and 1st floor throughout. Continuous dormers form an attic storey. Central tall cupola. Corporation Street (N) wing of 3 storeys, with large sash windows (3 to W, 4 to N) and minimal stone dressings. 2 utilitarian 4 storey gault brick wings to rear. Interior: metal roof membring, concrete floors with parquet blocks. Note: This building is a good example of these important early-C20 architects' work.
Listing NGR: TQ7453968330
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 172950
- 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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