STRETCH OF PRECINCT WALL FORMING PART OF THE DIOCESAN REGISTRY STRETCH OF PRECINCT WALLING EXTENDING ALONG EAST SIDE OF BOLEY HILL FROM A POINT IMMEDIATELY SOUTH WEST OF THE DIOCESAN REGISTRY (THE PRECINCT QV) TO (AND INCLUDING) THE KING'S SCHOOL CRAFT CENTRE

STRETCH OF PRECINCT WALL FORMING PART OF THE DIOCESAN REGISTRY, BOLEY HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1336101
Date first listed:: 02-Dec-1991
List Entry Name:: STRETCH OF PRECINCT WALL FORMING PART OF THE DIOCESAN REGISTRY STRETCH OF PRECINCT WALLING EXTENDING ALONG EAST SIDE OF BOLEY HILL FROM A POINT IMMEDIATELY SOUTH WEST OF THE DIOCESAN REGISTRY (THE PRECINCT QV) TO (AND INCLUDING) THE KING'S SCHOOL CRAFT CENTRE
Statutory Address:: STRETCH OF PRECINCT WALL FORMING PART OF THE DIOCESAN REGISTRY, BOLEY HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1336101
Date first listed:: 02-Dec-1991
List Entry Name:: STRETCH OF PRECINCT WALL FORMING PART OF THE DIOCESAN REGISTRY STRETCH OF PRECINCT WALLING EXTENDING ALONG EAST SIDE OF BOLEY HILL FROM A POINT IMMEDIATELY SOUTH WEST OF THE DIOCESAN REGISTRY (THE PRECINCT QV) TO (AND INCLUDING) THE KING'S SCHOOL CRAFT CENTRE
Statutory Address 1:: STRETCH OF PRECINCT WALL FORMING PART OF THE DIOCESAN REGISTRY, BOLEY HILL
Statutory Address 2:: STRETCH OF PRECINCT WALLING EXTENDING ALONG EAST SIDE OF BOLEY HILL FROM A POINT IMMEDIATELY SOUTH WEST OF THE DIOCESAN REGISTRY (THE PRECINCT QV) TO (AND INCLUDING) THE KING'S SCHOOL CRAFT CENTRE, BOLEY HILL

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:: STRETCH OF PRECINCT WALL FORMING PART OF THE DIOCESAN REGISTRY, BOLEY HILL
Statutory Address:: STRETCH OF PRECINCT WALLING EXTENDING ALONG EAST SIDE OF BOLEY HILL FROM A POINT IMMEDIATELY SOUTH WEST OF THE DIOCESAN REGISTRY (THE PRECINCT QV) TO (AND INCLUDING) THE KING'S SCHOOL CRAFT CENTRE, BOLEY HILL

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 74174 68480

Details

ROCHESTER BOLEY HILL TQ 7468 King's Head Hotel (see under High Street) TQ 7468 NW AND TQ 7468 SW ROCHESTER BOLEY HILL 7/3 AND 9/3 Stretch of Precinct walling extending along east side of Boley Hill from a point immediately south- west of the Diocesan Registry (The Precinct qv) to (and including) The King's School Craft Centre GV II Wall bounding that part of the cathedral precinct originally occupied by the Bishops' Palace. Partly medieval, much renewal. Random rubble ragstone and clunch. Varies in height from 3.5 to 7m; 4 later gateways knocked through. At the S end the wall returns to form the outer and lower courses of a late-C19 2- storeyed craft workshop.

Listing NGR: TQ7419368520

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Legacy System number:: 172930
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.