Prior's Gate House With Garden Wall
PRIOR'S GATE HOUSE WITH GARDEN WALL, THE PRECINCT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1329929
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Prior's Gate House With Garden Wall
- Statutory Address:
- PRIOR'S GATE HOUSE WITH GARDEN WALL, THE PRECINCT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1329929
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Prior's Gate House With Garden Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRIOR'S GATE HOUSE WITH GARDEN WALL, THE PRECINCT
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:
- PRIOR'S GATE HOUSE WITH GARDEN WALL, THE PRECINCT
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 74214 68481
Details
ROCHESTER THE PRECINCT TQ 7468 SW 7/200; 9/200 Prior's Gate House with Garden Wall 24-10-50 GV II Former house, now 3 dwellings. C18 main range with early C19 rear and entrance wings. The main house is a rebuilding of a range that elsewhere incorporates remains of the former Bishops' Palace (College Green and Southgate, qv); there appears to be no medieval work surviving above ground inside Prior's Gate House. Red brick; Welsh slate hipped roofs. Six prominent brick stacks to whole. Garden front: 2½ storeys, regular 5-window range: parapet with stone coping and brick cornice band; sill band between ground and 1st floors. Upper half storey with 3 3-light and one 2-light casement windows, with two blocked windows in addition, all within elliptical arched recesses. Otherwise, 12- pane hornless sashes in exposed frames, some original, under depressed window arches. To the left, the later 2-storey range (one sash window to ground floor, one blocked window above) which returns to form the present regular 5-window entrance front (E), all except one blocked window with 12-pane sashes in exposed frames. Rear wing and elevation with variously disposed sash and some casement windows. Central porch incorporates a random rubble ragstone wall which rises to take a shaped stone coping and a re-used medieval 4-centred arch. The attached garden wall with gabled coping is included in this listing. It returns W as an C18 brick wall, on rubble plinth, with cogged course below coping; 2 piers to C19 gateway. This wall continues to form garden wall of College Green and Southgate (qv).
Listing NGR: TQ7421368475
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 173133
- 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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