12 AND 14, HIGH STREET
12 AND 14, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1336127
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 12 AND 14, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 12 AND 14, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1336127
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 12 AND 14, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 12 AND 14, 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:
- 12 AND 14, 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 74197 68748
Details
ROCHESTER HIGH STREET TQ 7468 7/43 Nos 12 and 14 24.10.50 GV II* Formerly a pair of houses (probably with shops), now a shop with offices. They stand end-on to the street and are of the same build, c.1500, with later additions. The original plan of each was probably the standard 2-cell, storeyed block with the shop facing the street. If so, then No 14 was extended to the rear at an early date, perhaps the first quarter of the sixteenth century (see blocked window and early door described below). Lateral stairs (C17 where dateable) possibly in original position. Timber-framed with plaster infil; the framing consists of close-set studs with downard braces; crown post roofs. 2 storeys with gabled attic; Kent tiled roofs. Brick stacks in valleys. Exterior: No 12 with late C20 shop front and door; No 14 with c.1900 shopfront (fluted end pilasters, large glazed windows with decorative uprights and little rectangular overlight, tiled plinth, panelled reveal). 1st floor jettied with floor joists exposed. Most of the framing survives to No 14, but a substantial central section of the 1st floor framing of No 12 has been altered. Intermediate studs possibly inserted when the paired leaded casement windows placed under the tie in the C17 (4 pairs to No 14 2 to No 12); some C20 renewal. The lower rails to No 12 may mark position of original windows. Gable framing identical. No 14 has some jettying to rear; C19 warehouse/workshop (with hoist) to rear of No 14. Interior: much remodelled. Internal party wall has downward braces and studs; formerly external doorway with 4-centred arch with 5 light blocked window adjacent with diamong mullions, now part of party wall. Crown post roofs, that to No 12 with a slightly non- standard crown-post with run-outs C17 stairs (to No 14) with stout turned balusters. Plain vaulted cellar.
Listing NGR: TQ7419568747
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 172974
- 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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