Gordon Hotel
GORDON HOTEL, 91, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1336123
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Gordon Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- GORDON HOTEL, 91, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1336123
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Gordon Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- GORDON HOTEL, 91, 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:
- GORDON HOTEL, 91, 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 74363 68524
Details
ROCHESTER HIGH STREET TQ 7468 NW 7/129 No 91 (Gordon Hotel) 24.10.50 GV II* Hotel, formerly a large town house. Late C17 with mid C18 front and C19 alterations. Red brick with burnt headers; Kent tile roof. Double-deptch (the stairs occupying half the rear roof space) with rear wing, and C19 ballroom beyond. End stacks. Front: 3 storeys, regular 4-window range. Heavy deeply overhanging moulded wooden cornice on spaced shaped modillions returns to either side. Brick plat bands between floors and another below cornice interrupted by 2nd floor window arches. Rubbed brick flat window arches. 12-pane hornless sashes in exposed frames throughout. Stucco doorcase to right with pediment on console brackets; panelled door under rectangular unglazed overlight with decorative tracery. Tripartite inner doorway, half-glazed, half-panelled with rectangular overlight. The hotel extends one window bay to the left (adjacent to No 89), also chequered brick, 2 storeys (possibly reduced) with hornless sash window to 1st floor, plat band and stone coped parapet; shop front with fluted end pilasters. Interior: the importance of the building lies primarily in the C17 dining room on the ground floor to the left of the entrance passage. Moulded cornice and two tiers of raised panels in moulded frames; these panels are marbled and have at their centre oval oil paintings (directly on to the wood) of game, fish and other edibles. Contemporary oil painting in gilded frame over end fireplace, the latter with C19 shouldered surround and inset tiles. Entrance hall with black and white chequered flag floor, round-headed archway into stairhall antechamber, with panelled imposts and keystone. Antechamber and stairhall with moulded door surrounds (some bolection) and cupboards with H-hinges. Open-well stairs (to 1st floor only) with plain newels with moulded caps and twisted balusters. At foot of stairs an open-work half door with H- hinges (perhaps a dog door). A rear stair has turned newels and splat balusters. Former rear windows now internal. C19 ballroom. Throughout the ground floor there is much C17, C18 and C19 joinery of interest. Upper floors not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ7437668533
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 173059
- 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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