Description

TQ 7468 SE
10/151

ROCHESTER,
HIGH STREET (EASTGATE),
Rochester Head Post Office

GV II

Head post office. 1908, architect not known. Gault brick with red brick and lime-stone dressings; Welsh slate roof with 2 tall ridge stacks. 2 storeys. Front: almost symmetrical, 5 bays, bays 2 and 4 slightly projecting. Parapet with stone coping: moulded dentil cornice. 1st floor: horned sashes in exposed frames, all with glazing bars, the windows to the outer bays and the tripartite window to centre with rubbed brick surrounds and keystones those to bays 2 and 4 stone shouldered architraves; continuous sill band; rubbed brick aprons to 1 and 5, stone to 2 and 4, the latter set on the ground floor cornice. Entrance to bay 2, deeply recessed window to 4, otherwise identical with Tuscan columns and entablatures that connect over centre tripartite window arrangement. Continuous stone plinth that rises in outer bays to form aprons to sash windows (as above in rubbed brick surround). Modern central dormer. A thoughtful, good-quality design.

Listing NGR: TQ7443168361

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26377241

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