Former County Court With Gatepiers Attached

The former County Court, dated 1862, is located on Rochester High Street. This building features Flemish bond red brick, with gault and black brick and stone dressings, topped with Welsh slate hipped roofs that have bargeboarded gablets. Designed in the High Victorian polychrome Gothic style, it has a double pile plan with offices in the street-side block and a first-floor courtroom in the taller rear block, aligned east-west. The building stands two storeys high and has a regular five-window range facing the High Street. All windows consist of two lights, with stone mullions and surrounds; the first-floor windows have flat arches, while the ground-floor windows have cambered brick arches, and the lights feature moulded shouldered arches. The windows are fitted with four-pane horned sashes.

To the right, there is a doorway with a stone architrave that has a shouldered head and a tracery fanlight beneath a two-centered brick arch. The building displays gault and black brick banding at the first-floor and eaves levels, along with a corbelled stone eaves cornice. A porch under the entrance tower, which has two stages and a rectangular plan, features three ground-floor stilted cambered arches of two orders with deeply cut stone capitals. The left arch has a three-light window, while the entrance arches to the north and south have a royal coat-of-arms above the south entrance. The upper stage has decorated style two-light windows and bracketted eaves. The leaded spire has a broach base and a saddle-back apex with cresting and a weather-vane. There is polychrome banding at the line of springers to the arches and at the eaves.

At the front, there are two attached gatepiers, although the gates have been replaced. The rear courtroom range features two-light decorated style tracery windows on the first floor. The building also has cast-iron rainwater goods and two prominent end stacks on the rear range, along with a truncated ridge stack at the front. The interior has not been inspected.