Description

ROCHESTER HIGH STREET (St
TQ 7467
Margaret's Banks)
12/99 No 308 (formerly
listed as Nos 308
and 308A)
24.10.50
GV II
Shop, built as a bank. C.1800. Stuccoed ground floor, painted
brick; hipped Kent-tile roof. 3 storeys with attic, 5 bay ground
floor, single bay (with tripartite windows) upper floors.
Elaborate ground floor bays have 2 12-pane sash windows with
glazing bars, lower sashes now with plate glass. Pair of Tuscan
Doric pilasters with bases and capitals coupled at west angle
only, with frieze, cornice and brackets. Central 2 leaf 6 panel
raised and fielded door with segmental arch. 6 panel fielded
door with wreathed knocker, plain over door light, giving access
to house above. Similar door at west giving access to yard and
alley, providing fifth bay of the facade. First floor has single
projecting semental bow with fielded wooden dado. 3 windows with
architrave strip divisions, with 8 pane outer and 12 pane central
curved sashes. Flat roof with urn. Second floor has one
tripartite 6 pane centre and 4 pane outer sashes under segmental
rubbed brick arch. Parapet, single dormer, one stack. Deep
build back along plot with tripartite sashes to rear.

Listing NGR: TQ7489367965

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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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