Diocesan Registry Including Part Of Precinct Wall To Boley Hill

ROCHESTER THE PRECINCT TQ 7468 NW 7/198 Diocesan Registry (including part of Precinct wall to Boley Hill 24.10.50 GV II Former offices of Chapter Clerk, now Diocesan Registry and solicitors' offices. Mid C18, with various C19 additions. 2 prinicpal ranges: the C18 registry building of buff brick with later red-brick, both with Welsh slate roof, and the later C19 2 storeyed block (backing on to Boley Hill), built in to the medieval rubble wall, with slate-hung and rubble upper storeys and Kent tile hipped roof. The Old Registry range (facing The Precinct). Single-storey with deep cornice and verges forming a pediment (weatherboarded with one 3-light casement window, C20); central entrance with Tuscan Columns, cornice and pediment, with a 12-pane hornless sash window with external shutters to either side. To the left, a later single storey 3-window range with 2 12-pane sash windows in raised frames flanking a 4:12:4 tripartite sash, all hornless. To the roof ridge of this section, a small polygonal glazed cupola. Modern Venetian window to right hand end wall. Rear range with off-centre 3:18:3 pane oriel and gable above, and C20 casement windows towards Boley Hill. Various lean-to and gable-ended outbuildings built into precinct wall. Several prominent brick stacks to main and subsidiary ranges. Interior: some mid-C18 panelling, but otherwise much altered. A lawyer's office has occupied this site since the 1760s and it is possible that part of the building dates from this time.

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