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Monument details

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1667 to 1866

Summary from record TQ 76 NW 160 :

Late C17 house, C19 range to rear.

Monument Types

• HOUSE (HOUSE, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
• SITE (Post Medieval - 1667 AD to 1866 AD)

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
ROCHESTER ST MARGARET'S STREET TQ 7468 SW 9/231 No 52 (The Limes) and garden wall to 24.10.50 north attached GV II* Former house, now offices. Late C17 with mid. C19 range to rear. Timber-framed and brick clad to older range, brick throughout to rear range; Kent-tile roofs. Plan: 2 parallel ranges of unequal height stand gable end-on to street, with high-status ground floor room to left, and central stairs to rear. Rear and lateral stacks. Behind this, a mid. C19 range running parallel to street under hipped roof with end stack. C17 build of 2 storeys and attic; rear range of 3 storeys. Front: plastered 2 gabled bays, the taller range with entrance to right. The latter with doorway in surround with reveals and panelled door; 1st floor with late C18 bowed oriel, 8:12:8 hornless sashes under cornice; 1 2-pane hornless sash with flush frame to gable wall. Left-hand range with 2 16-pane hornless sashes under continuous lintel to ground, another, set off-centre to 1st floor, and a 12-pane sash to gable wall.
Right return with later brick underpinning; 1 sash window, the others replaced, with a doorway (surround and bracketed canopy) giving in to short projecting rear extension of C17 range and set under catslide. Rear: regular 4-window range, 12 and 16-pane hornless sashes in reveals to upper and ground floors respectively, the latter with external shutters. Right-of-centre doorway with panelled reveals, attached Doric columns, canopy and glazed door (C20, with glazing bars). Interior: fine plaster detailing (ground floor, left), of c.1690s, with central oval relief containing foliage and fruit set in a square frame; internal doorcase with pediment and shouldered surround. Rear central open-wall stair, one turned baluster to each tread, square-section newels, panelled string, and with little Doric columns supporting the landings; stepped panelled wainscoting. Elsewhere much contemporary joinery (especially panelled doors, some with H-hinges), and a good bolection moulded chimney-piece. C19 rear range with door surrounds and other joinery.
Listing NGR: TQ7406468183

Description from record TQ 76 NW 160 :
[TQ 74076810] 52 [NAT] (1) ROCHESTER ST. MARGARET'S STREET No.52 (The Limes) and garden wall to north attached. Former house, now offices. Late C17 with mid C19 range to rear. Timber framed and brick clad to older range, brick throughout to rear range. [Full architectural reference] LISTED GRADE II*. (2)

English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<1> OS 1:2500 1970 (OS Card Reference). SKE48212.

<2> DOE(HHR)City of Rochester upon Medway Kent, 2nd Dec 1991 133 (OS Card Reference). SKE41266.

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