Crimea House Fort Pitt Grammar School For Girls
CRIMEA HOUSE, FORT PITT HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1336107
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Crimea House Fort Pitt Grammar School For Girls
- Statutory Address:
- CRIMEA HOUSE, FORT PITT HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1336107
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Crimea House Fort Pitt Grammar School For Girls
- Statutory Address 1:
- CRIMEA HOUSE, FORT PITT HILL
- Statutory Address 2:
- FORT PITT GRAMMAR SCHOOL FOR GIRLS, FORT PITT HILL
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:
- CRIMEA HOUSE, FORT PITT HILL
- Statutory Address:
- FORT PITT GRAMMAR SCHOOL FOR GIRLS, FORT PITT 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 75087 67580
Details
ROCHESTER FORT PITT HILL TQ 7567 13/37 Crimea House (Fort 24.10.50 Pitt Grammar School for Girls) II Former barracks hospital block. Late C18 or early C19. English bond gault brick; Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys. 6-window pedimented centre, 5-window flanking wings. Centre and paired end bays slightly advanced. Centre has 2 tripartite plate-glass sash windows and blocked round-headed arch to ground; 1st floor with 3 c.1900 horned plate glass sashes to left and 3 18-pane sashes (possibly early C19) to right, that to the centre under a cambered brick arch designed for a larger window now blocked. Stone dentil shallow pediment. Flanking recessed bays have 3 12- pane sashes in reveals to each floor (one converted into a door); the advanced side bays have 2 ground floor 12-pane sashes, the 1st floor with similar sashes to left, 18-pane sashes to right, all in reveals and under flat window arches. Dentil eaves cornice. Stepped stone terrace with footings of former verandah. 3 ridge stacks. The building was used as a hospital during the Crimea war (hence its name) and was visited by Queen Victoria.
Listing NGR: TQ7509367588
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 172968
- 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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