The Bishops House

The Bishop's House is a Bishop's residence, now functioning as a day nursery, built in 1895 by Norman Shaw for the Bishop of Rochester. It is constructed of red brick with stone dressings in the Queen Anne style, featuring a high-pitched, swept tiled roof with deep, coved eaves and segment-headed dormers. The building is two storeys high, with an attic and basement, and has six bays on the street front. The left return has eight bays, with the entrance located in a three-bay center section that includes a stone architrave, pulvinated frieze, cornice, and segmental pediment. The main windows are long, featuring timber mullions and transoms, flat gauged-brick arches, and keystones. The ground floor windows have blind boxes, while the basement windows are segmental-headed. There is a sill band on the first floor. At the rear, the former chapel has large lunette windows with leaded lights and keystones. The interior has not been inspected.