Former Barclays Bank
39 High Street, Rochester, Medway, ME1 1LN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1299323
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Former Barclays Bank
- Statutory Address:
- 39 High Street, Rochester, Medway, ME1 1LN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1299323
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Former Barclays Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- 39 High Street, Rochester, Medway, ME1 1LN
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:
- 39 High Street, Rochester, Medway, ME1 1LN
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 74275 68672
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 9 May 2023 to amend the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
TQ 7468
7/111
ROCHESTER
HIGH STREET
No 39
(Formerly listed as No 39 (Barclays Bank))
GV
II
Former bank. Circa 1900. Mainly brick, the facade of ashlar limestone, rusticated to ground floor, with some polished granite dressings. Free Jacobean Renaissance style. Three storeys. Almost symmetrical three bay front; ground floor under cornice supported by granite pilaster and two Ionic columns; two large windows (with glazing bars) and doorway (to right, projecting to line of cornice) all under round-headed arches with raised voussoirs.
First floor: bowed oriels to side bays with plate glass horned sashes, divided from central widow (deeply recessed under segmental pediment) by Corinthian pilasters.
Second floor: sash windows under pediments on console brackets. Balustraded parapet, the central bay raised to accommodate two round-headed attic windows under a segmental pediment. Brick and stacks.
Interior: banking hall with ribbed ceiling and modillion cornice; to the rear and set high, six windows with Art Nouveau patterned glass divided by squat Composite piers.
Listing NGR: TQ7428868678
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 173041
- 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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