No 60 (Including Those Parts At Rear Facing College Green) Rear Part Of 60 High Street

This is a large, complex house with a restaurant on the ground floor, dating back to the 15th century, with substantial additions and alterations in the 16th and 17th centuries. The building is situated on Rochester High Street and extends to College Green, abutting Chertsey's Gate on one side. It has a Kent tiled roof and internal stacks.

The building’s development has been complicated by extensive remodelling over time, resulting in a three-unit plan facing onto the High Street. Originally, it was a two-unit house built in the 15th century, with an early 16th-century room added at the rear, towards the cathedral and beyond the precinct wall. Original horizontal planking is visible on all floor levels. The basement retains original beams with joist mortices, and the ground floor has been raised. The front unit was remodelled in the 17th century, including a re-roofing, evident in the roof verges. The middle unit features a crown-post roof, which has been altered and realigned. Remnants of the original 15th-century end bracing are visible within the roof structure. An inserted lateral staircase has been added.

On the front elevation, the first floor is jettied and the timber framing has been renewed with rough cast infill. Shop windows with glazing bars are set within 19th-century surrounds, flanking a central half-glazed double door. There are three sash windows on the first floor, and another in the attic, all topped with moulded lintels. The bargeboards are likely 17th century. The College Green elevation features a first-floor jetty which stops short of the rear face of Chertsey’s Gate. A small casement window is set within this space, alongside a 12-pane hornless sash window and a large, shallow bow window with glazing bars. A bargeboarded first-floor window has twelve panes. A jetty beam is decorated with foliage carving, including a zig-zag and intersecting frieze, similar to the ceiling beams inside. A two-light gabled dormer is also present.

Inside, there is a good early 16th-century framed ceiling in the rear room, with foliage carving on the beams and moulded joists. Linenfold panelling is also present. A crenellated beam, potentially from the 15th century, is located between the middle and rear rooms, though it is not in its original position. A fireplace has a simple surround and Dutch tiling. The first floor features a mould tie beam and chamfered, stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. Some 18th-century fixtures remain.