Description

ROCHESTER HIGH STREET
TQ 7468 NW
7/56 No 44
24.10.50
GV II
House with shop (not used as a dwelling at time of re-survey,
1988). Substantially late C16, re-modelled in the late C17 with
C19 and C20 alterations. Timber framed with weatherboarding and
brick cladding, and rubble plinth to side elevation. Kent tile
gable end roof. Lateral brick stack. 2 unit end jetty plan,
sub-divided into 3 units when present stairs inserted in late
C17. 2 storeys and attic. 2 window range standing end-on to
High Street. Front, weatherboarded throughout, deep 1st floor
jetty. All windows with moulded wooden cornices and surrounds;
hornless sashes (6 panes to single attic window, 12 panes
elsewhere). Late C19 shop window, curved to corner with Two
Posts Alley. Slender vertical glazing posts, contemporary door
with modern glazing. Tiled floor to entrance. Left-hand return
weatherboarded. Right hand return with brick and plaster infill;
small 2-light casement window to 2nd floor, 12-pane hornless sash
to 1st; windows blocked to ground floor. Side wall continues as
rubble plinth and contains a C16 doorway, possibly not in situ,
square-headed with cyma-recta moulded surround and chalice stops.
(Note: the roof above this side is sprocketted, and the jettying
towards Two Posts Alley represents a later alteration and is not
part of the original plan; part of the rear extension may have
been removed). Rear with 2-light attic casement window and 12-
pane hornless sash to 1st and ground floor; weatherboarded
throughout. Interior: little visible at ground floor level.
Framing intact to 1st and 2nd floors. Principal intersecting
ceiling beams (chamfered and stopped) divide the building into
2 rooms to each floor; later partitions introduced when lateral
stair inserted; framed newel stair with turned balusters and ball
finials (many missing) on square-section newels; side purlin roof
with wind braces. Some later furnishings survive: late C18
fireplace with panelled frieze, dentilled cornice and moulded
surround; moulded corner cupboard; some plank doors with spur
hinges.

Listing NGR: TQ7425868652

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26377399

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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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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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)