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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 76 NW 587
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:THE GLEANINGS WITH RAILINGS TO REAR WEST

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1810 to 1850

Summary from record TQ 76 NW 161 :

House, c.1830.


Grid Reference:TQ 7402 6813
Map Sheet:TQ76NW
Parish:ROCHESTER & CHATHAM, MEDWAY, KENT

Monument Types

  • HOUSE (HOUSE, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • SITE (Post Medieval - 1810 AD to 1850 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II*) 1326284: THE GLEANINGS WITH RAILINGS TO REAR WEST

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
ROCHESTER ST MARGARET'S STREET TQ 7468 SW 9/235 No 58 (The Gleanings) with railings to 19-2-70 rear (W). GV II* House. Circa 1830. Architect not known; the front is influenced by Soane and the combination of Grecian (towards the street) and Gothic (towards the river) is rminiscent of J B Rebecca. Buff- coloured stucco on gault brick (exposed on side elevations); Welsh slate hipped roof. Double-depth with central entrance hall and stair to rear. 2 storeys. Front: symmetrical, 3 bays, the centre bay projecting under a pediment. Side bays under parapet with cornice. 1st floor windows recessed in 2 layers under elliptical arches, with 12-pane hornless sashes in revealed frames. Plat band between floors. Ground floor of centre bay, and end pilasters, rusticated. Porch with Doric columns and simple moulded cornice; raised and fielded panel double doors with fixed side lights all under flat cord fanlight. Side windows under similar fanlight, recessed, with one 12-pane sash flanked by blind panels of equal size. Rear: 3 bays, crenellated; side bays project and are connected by string courses at cornice and 1st floor level the latter broken by a lower semi-circular storied projection, also crenellated. All windows with elliptical arches and hood moulds; tripartite sashes (3:6:3 hornless to 1st floor, 2:4:2 horned to ground) with fanlight to centre, and trefoil heads to side lights. Centre sashes (12 and 9 pane to 1st and ground floor) with intersecting Gothick head tracery. Sash windows and some blanks to side elevations. Left return connected to service range (qv). Interior: good contemporary fittings; open-well stair with iron stick balusters and wreathed rail, the well top lit by a glazed dome; panelled doors and reeded door surrounds; plaster cornices, and decorative panels to hall. Some chimney-pieces replaced. The rear central semi-circular projection originally contained water-closets fed from a lead cistern concealed behind the crenellation and itself fed by the lead guttering that collected rainwater from the hipped roofs. The cistern survives. The spear headed railings on ragstone plinth at the foot of the rear garden (to W) are included in this listing.
Listing NGR: TQ7402868132

Description from record TQ 76 NW 161 :
[TQ 74036813] 58 [NAT] (1) ROCHESTER ST.MARGARET'S STREET No.58 (The Gleanings) with railings to rear (W). House, cica 1830. Architect not known; the front is influenced by Soane and the combination of Grecian (towards the street) and Gothic (towards the river) is reminiscent of J B Rebecca. [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 136 (OS Card Reference). SKE41267.

<3> Newman J(1980)The Buildings of England:West Kent and the Weald 497 (OS Card Reference). SKE47547.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
---Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
<1>OS Card Reference: OS 1:2500 1970.
<2>OS Card Reference: DOE(HHR)City of Rochester upon Medway Kent, 2nd Dec 1991 136.
<3>OS Card Reference: Newman J(1980)The Buildings of England:West Kent and the Weald 497.