156, HIGH STREET, 156, EASTGATE

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:: 156, EASTGATE

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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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Legacy System number:: 173011
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.