Description

ROCHESTER HOSPITAL LANE (OFF)
TQ 7567 NW
13/168 Mortuary of St
Bartholemew's
Hospital
GV II
Garden building, now part of St Bartholemew's Hospital. Late C18
or early C19 painted stucco on brick, slate roofs. 2 storeys,
with lower wing now built up to 2 storeys gothick or 'Castle
Style'. Centre has one ground floor 4-centered arched door under
drip mould head with stairs and balustrade. First floor has 3
inserted c.1900 plate glass sash windows. 2 rounded towers at
angles with arrow slit openings to ground and first floors.
Drip-mould string runs across towers mid facade at first floor
level, similar string at parapet level with battlement. 2
storeys recessed wing at east has 3 gothick headed openings at
ground floor, second floor with hipped slate roof. Wing at west
has c.1960 first floor flat roofed addition. Small angle
buttresses with ogees at head at rear. A garden building eye
catcher to No 257 High Street to the north (qv).

Listing NGR: TQ7513667865

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26620667

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Recommended Books

• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)