The Rochester Bar is a Grade II listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1950. Former house/pub. 1 related planning application.
The Rochester Bar
- WRENN ID
- dusted-gargoyle-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Rochester and Strood MP: Lauren Edwards (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1950
- Type
- Former house/pub
- Address
- The Rochester Bar, 18, High Street, ME1 1EW
- OS grid reference
- TQ 742 687
- Coordinates
- 51.39078, 0.50264
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rochester Bar is a former house that has been converted into a public bar on the ground floor. It dates from around 1800 and is constructed of dark red brick with fine pointing, featuring a renewed parapet. The building stands at 3½ storeys tall and has a two-window range. It includes hornless sash windows throughout, with 16 panes on the first and second floors and 12 panes on the upper half storey, all set under flat rubbed brick arches. The contemporary rainwater goods are located between Nos 18 and 20. The ground floor was completely remodelled in the late 20th century, and the right-hand end stack has been rebuilt. At the rear, there are two 12-pane hornless sash windows on the upper half storey only.
Local climate
The Rochester Bar sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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