Former County Court With Gatepiers Attached

ROCHESTER HIGH STREET TQ 7468 SE 10/157 Former County Court with gatepiers attached II Former Court house and offices. Dated 1862. Flemish bond red brick with gault and black brick and stone dressings. Welsh slate hipped roofs with bargeboarded gablet. High Victorian polychrome Gothic; double pile plan (offices to the street-side block, the 1st floor court room to the taller rear block) aligned E-W, with a NW entrance tower (with spire). 2 storeys. Regular 5-window range to High Street. All windows of 2 lights, with stone mullions and surrounds, flat window arches to 1st floor, cambered (and brick) to ground, the lights themselves with moulded shouldered arches. 4-pane horned sashes. Doorway to right, stone architrave with shouldered head, and tracery fanlight under 2-centered brick arch. Gault and black brick banding at 1st floor and eaves levels. Corbelled stone eaves cornice. Porch under tower (2 stages), rectangular plan; 3 ground floor stilted, cambered arches of 2 orders, deeply cut stone capitals; arch to left (W) with 3 light window, entrance arches (N and S) with royal coat-of-arms over S. Decorated style 2-light windows to upper stage. Bracketted eaves. Leaded spire with broach base and saddle-back apex with cresting and weather-vane. Polychrome banding at line of springers to arches, and to eaves. 2 gatepiers attached at front (gates replaced). Rear court-room range: 1st floor with 2-light Decorated style tracery windows. Cast-iron rainwater goods. 2 prominent end stacks to rear range, and a truncated ridge stack to front. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ7467868150