156, HIGH STREET, 156, EASTGATE
156, EASTGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1299474
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 156, HIGH STREET, 156, EASTGATE
- Statutory Address:
- 156, EASTGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1299474
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 156, HIGH STREET, 156, EASTGATE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 156, EASTGATE
- Statutory Address 2:
- 156, 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:
- 156, EASTGATE
- Statutory Address:
- 156, 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 74486 68288
Details
ROCHESTER HIGH STREET TQ 7468 (EASTGATE) 9/81 No 156 24.10.50 GV II* Former town house, now offices. A C18 re-fronting and internal re-modelling of a C17 building. Brick front, Kent tile mansard roof; timber-framed to rear, partly weatherboarded, rendered and brick clad. Double-depth plan; entrance hall and stair to left, but stairs originally contained in a rear turret. 3 storeys and attic. Front: regular 4-window range. 2 flat-roofed dormers, one with a sash, the other with a 2-light casement window. rebuilt parapet with stone coping. Moulded brick cornice. 12- pane hornless sashes in reveals under flat window arches, with stone sills, to all floors including the 2 to ground (where the reveals continue below sill level). Left-hand wooden doorcase with panelled reveals; panelled door with fanlight. Simpler doorway to right. Interior: considerable remains of C18 wall panelling, also internal shutters. Good lateral open oval well stair rises through all floors, wreathed rail and stick balusters. Some late C17 panelling to former framed stair turret.
Listing NGR: TQ7448468287
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 173011
- 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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