FOORD ALMSHOUSES NOS 1-47 WITH GATE AND FORECOURT WALLS ATTACHED

FOORD ALMSHOUSES NOS 1-47 WITH GATE AND FORECOURT WALLS ATTACHED, 1-47, PRIESTFIELDS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1329912
Date first listed:: 24-Oct-1950
List Entry Name:: FOORD ALMSHOUSES NOS 1-47 WITH GATE AND FORECOURT WALLS ATTACHED
Statutory Address:: FOORD ALMSHOUSES NOS 1-47 WITH GATE AND FORECOURT WALLS ATTACHED, 1-47, PRIESTFIELDS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1329912
Date first listed:: 24-Oct-1950
List Entry Name:: FOORD ALMSHOUSES NOS 1-47 WITH GATE AND FORECOURT WALLS ATTACHED
Statutory Address 1:: FOORD ALMSHOUSES NOS 1-47 WITH GATE AND FORECOURT WALLS ATTACHED, 1-47, PRIESTFIELDS

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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Statutory Address:: FOORD ALMSHOUSES NOS 1-47 WITH GATE AND FORECOURT WALLS ATTACHED, 1-47, PRIESTFIELDS

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District:: Medway (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 73715 67162

Details

ROCHESTER PRIESTFIELDS TW 76 NW 2/204 Foord Almshouses Nos 1-47 with gate and forecourt walls attached 24.10.50 GV II* Almhouses, with gate and forecourt walls attached. 1926. E Guy Dawber architect. Flemish bond red brick, stone dressings, Kent tile roofs. 'U' plan court laid out as Cour d'honneur with forecourt gate and walls. Largely single storey with 2 storey pavilions. Neo-vernacular style of C17 with Baroque references. Central axial Hall has 3 bay arcaded loggia with 4 bas relief roundels in the spandrels. 2 other gabled bays with mullion and transomed windows, coped parapet gables with finials, 2 light casements in gables. Gable of hall recessed above loggia with one arched window and 2 cross gables. Copper spire with cupola and dome. Wings at east and west have 4 light casements, segmental pedimented door, gabled dormers. Steep roofs with tall stacks. Conical roofs to pavilion at angles. Cross axis pavilions of 2 storeys with 2 bays with gables to centres, 2 dormers to roofs. Hipped returned gables advanced into court. 2 further single storey wings repeat details of those on north side. Returned into court at entrance are 2 2-storey with attics pavilions with central gabled bays with 5 light casements, cross windows to staircases, gabled oriels on gable to court. Single stack on central axis a Baroque style segmental pedimented gate with slate inscription 1927 with Ionic pilasters and large scroll console brackets, balustrade to east and west encloses south front of court. Forecourt created in front with axial wrought iron gate and overthrow with lamp. Stone coped brick dwarf wall with 2 stone coped and finialed piers at NE, SE, NW, SW angles. Further taller walls return to connection with south front angle pavilions.

Listing NGR: TQ7367067086

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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.