George Vaults
GEORGE VAULTS, 35, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1186209
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1950
- List Entry Name:
- George Vaults
- Statutory Address:
- GEORGE VAULTS, 35, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1186209
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- George Vaults
- Statutory Address 1:
- GEORGE VAULTS, 35, 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:
- GEORGE VAULTS, 35, 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 74267 68684
Details
ROCHESTER HIGH STREET TQ 7468 NW 7/109 No 35 (George Vaults) (formerly 24.10.50 listed as George Inn) GV II* Public house. Late C18 and C19, built over early C14 (c.1320-5) vaulted undercroft. Brick; hipped tile roof. 3 storeys; regular 3-window range. Brick parapet with stone coping and cornice band. 2nd floor: 4-pane horned sash windows under flat rubbed brick arches. 1st floor: large Venetian window with 2:4:2 horned sashes. Late Victorian pub front with glazed brick plinth, central half-glazed double door with rectangular overlight; large side windows and blocked side doors. C18 rainwater head between this and No 37. Left return with fragmentary dentilled cornice. Modern boiler stack and some hornless sash windows. The building is notable for its early C14 undercroft (which gives Geroge Vaults its starred listing grade). Chalk ashlar and rubble; 4 bays; quadrapartite vaults with longitudinal rib; chamfered ribs with rubble infill; foliated bosses with various creatures. Moulded capitals to shaft with foliated necks and pyramid stops. The decorative detailing is much eroded. One pointed arch doorway (blocked) to E; other openings, also blocked, set high to W. Further arched doorways to the S (street-side) are obscured from view. The undercroft measures 54 feet x 16 ft 8½ ins and is 11 ft high. Drawings of the undercroft with details appear in George Payne, 'Medieval Crypts at Rochester'. Archaeolooia Cantiana XXIV (1900), 220-4.
Listing NGR: TQ7427268688
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 173039
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Archaeologia Cantiana in Archaeologia Cantiana, Vol. 24, (1900), 220-4
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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