Description

ROCHESTER ST MARGARET'S STREET
TQ 7468 SW
9/238 No 60 (Thorndikes)
and former stable
and coach-house
adjoining
(formerly listed
as The Vicarage and
Stable
19-2-70 adjoining)
GV II
House, formerly the Rectory to St Margaret's. 1781 (possibly
incorporating earlier work) with alterations of 1870. Brick
(with some stone dressings); Kent tile hipped and gable-end
roofs. Double depth, forming two separately roofed parallel
ranges with end stacks, a side wing, and a stable and carriage
house facing on to the street. Front: asymmetrical range; 2
dormers with Yorkshire sashes. Left-of-centre doorway (surround
with pilasters, moulded canopy on shaped brackets, and panelled
door); to the right a storeyed canted Victorian wing, with
sandstone dressings, dentilled cornice and pierced parapet,
string course between the storeys, rubbed brick elliptical window
arches and 2:4:2 horned sashes. To the left, 2 window bays
remain of a regular Georgian front, with sash windows in flush
frames (glazing bars to 1st storey only), and rubbed brick flat
arches. Projecting forward and to either side are the single-
storey stable and coachhouse each with hipped roof and round-
headed arched doorway (that to the right blocked). Side wing
with sashes. Rear: regular 4-window range. 12-pane sashes under
rubbed brick flat arches, and a C20 left-of-centre glazed door.
The name of the house commemorates the fact that Dame Sybil
Thorndike spent much of her childhood here when her father was
Rector of St Margaret's.

Listing NGR: TQ7404368100

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26377211

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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