Garth House
GARTH HOUSE, THE PRECINCT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1336173
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Garth House
- Statutory Address:
- GARTH HOUSE, THE PRECINCT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1336173
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Garth House
- Statutory Address 1:
- GARTH HOUSE, 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:
- GARTH HOUSE, 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 74253 68456
Details
ROCHESTER THE PRECINCT TQ 7468 SW 9/191 Garth House GV II Former choir school, now cathedral offices. Circa 1870s. Red brick with sandstone dressings; tiled gable-end roof with stone coping. Hall forms upper floor of 2 storey range aligned N/S and end-on to street. Side elevation (W), 2 gabled 2-light 1st floor Decorated-style windows flank a central external stack (with 2 brick shafts and stone band with inscription) which widens out at ground floor level to frame a small 2-light gabled window. C20 casements to ground floor. Street front: large 3-light Decorated-style window, 4 trefoil-headed lancets to ground floor. Entrance to right: a later shallow porch flush with S face of hall range (and with simple pointed doorway, and standing forward of the wall plane of Cloister House (qv) to which it is attached. Rear: 3 light window to hall; lancets to angle stair turret. Interior: hall divided into offices with false ceiling in part; good hammer-beam roof survives intact. (This building overbuilds and backs on to parts of the S range of the cloister (refectory) of the cathedral, see ref 9/88).
Listing NGR: TQ7425768456
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 173123
- 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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