170, EASTGATE, 170, HIGH STREET
170, EASTGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1186010
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1990
- List Entry Name:
- 170, EASTGATE, 170, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 170, EASTGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1186010
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1990
- List Entry Name:
- 170, EASTGATE, 170, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 170, EASTGATE
- Statutory Address 2:
- 170, 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:
- 170, EASTGATE
- Statutory Address:
- 170, 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 74512 68252
Details
ROCHESTER HIGH STREET TQ 7468 SE (EASTGATE) 10/86 No 170 3.10.90 GV II Former house, now a shop. Mid C17 with late C18 front. Partly timber-framed at rear. Flemish bond red brick front; Kent-tile roof. Plan clear on 1st floor, 3 units to front block the 2 E bays with dividing stack, the W bay with stairs. 3 storeys. Front: regular 3-window range. Edwardian style shopfront dated 1982. 1st and 2nd floors with 4-pane horned sashes in revealed frames under cambered arches. Stone coped parapet renewed. Stuccoed side wall (left) with 2 windows. Brick rear gable with 2 1st floor windows of 12 and 16 panes. Outshut continues to W. Interior: Mid C17 dogleg stair runs through 3 storeys and is of ambitious proportions with urn and shaft balusters on stout rectangular plinths, abutted newels to each angle, alternately rectangular or rounded. 1st floor front chamber has ovolo- moulded and stopped chamfered spine and cross beams, early C18 part box wooden cornice, part dado panelling. Rear chamber has stopped and chamfered cross beam. 2nd floor rear room has partly exposed 4-centred chamfered fireplace bressumer, perhaps re-used. Some timber framing (angle wall posts and wall plates) exposed.
Listing NGR: TQ7451468252
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 173016
- 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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