King's Head Hotel
KING'S HEAD HOTEL, BOLEY HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1299541
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1950
- List Entry Name:
- King's Head Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- KING'S HEAD HOTEL, BOLEY HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1299541
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- King's Head Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- KING'S HEAD HOTEL, BOLEY HILL
- Statutory Address 2:
- KING'S HEAD HOTEL, 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:
- KING'S HEAD HOTEL, BOLEY HILL
- Statutory Address:
- KING'S HEAD HOTEL, 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 74277 68617
Details
ROCHESTER HIGH STREET TQ 7468 NW 7/59 King's Head Hotel (formerly listed 24.10.50 as No 58) GV II Hotel. C17 rear wing; C18 front range altered and re-faced in later C19; C19 rear ranges along Boley Hill. Part timber framed; mostly rendered brick; Kent tile and slate roof. Original plan too altered to reconstruct; lateral stairs in situ, with possibly C16 room to rear. Front: 3 storeyed regular 3-window range; moulded cornice; tripartite 6:24:6 and 4:16:4 pane hornless sash windows under depressed arches to upper floors. Prominent plat band with the hotel's name attached in large letters. Ground floor with Edwardian brown tiling and fenestration with cornice and fascia (bearing name and nature of business) that returns around curved corner and along Boley Hill elevation. Wide central entrance (the cornice here projecting and supporting iron brattishing) and 3-light windows with glazing bars. Boley Hill elevation preserves some of the C18 dentilled cornice; plat band returns. The rear ranges present varied frontages that reflect their different building dates: The older wing is jettied at 2nd floor level and the back block is top lit; generally 12 and 16 pane hornless sash windows, with some C20 casements to ground level. Interior: much late C20 joinery; open well stair extends through 3 storeys. Room at rear with large joists.
Listing NGR: TQ7428068618
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 172990
- 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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