Description

ROCHESTER HIGH STREET
TQ 7468 NW
7/115 No 51
24.10.50
GV II
House with restaurant. Mainly mid C17 with early C18 facade.
Grey brick with red brick dressings (to front); Kent tile roof
with dormer. Single-depth front range with wing to rear the
framing of the whole building largely intact. Front: 3 storeys;
regular 3-window range. Parapet with stone coping and simple
brick cornice band. Rubbed brick cambered window arches with
keystones and stone sills; later C19 4-pane plate-glass horned
sashes to upper floors. Ground floor stuccoed; doorway to left
with panelled reveals, plain pilasters and moulded canopy;
panelled door with rectangular overlight. Large early C19 shop
window under moulded segmental arch with panelled pilasters.
Lead rainwater head between Nos 51 and 53. Interior: fragment
of C17 decorative work such as cornices; more probably survives
concealed. A C17 4-light window in the wing with large chamfered
mullions, is exposed in the side wall of the wing (1st floor):
it contains some C19 coloured glass.

Listing NGR: TQ7430668639

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26410124

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)