Linden House

ROCHESTER NAG'S HEAD LANE TQ 7467 NE 12/176 No 2 Linden House 19-2-70 II House. First quarter of C18, perhaps incorporating earlier rear wall. Textured plaster render on brick, Kent tile roof. 2 chamber plan with central staircase. 2 storeys with attics, 3- window range. 2 ground and 3 first floor flush wooden architrave surround sashes with glazing bars, 12 panes each. Doorcase of 2 fluted pilasters with bracketted flat pentice, 8 panel raised and fielded doors. 2 upper panels glazed. 2 hip-roofed dormers, with fixed swivel casements. Wooden eaves box cornice, partly replaced. Interior: Good dogleg stairs of c.1714 with hand rail with snake-neck sweep at angles, 3 balusters per tread, cut string, continuous to attic with all its details. 2 panel fielded panelling to both ground floor rooms, 6 panel doors. Rococo bolection moulded fireplace with c.1820 grate in room to south, c.1820 fireplace and grate in room to north, boxed out cornices to both rooms. Both first floor rooms panelled, partly bolection moulded panel fields in rooms at north.

Listing NGR: TQ7483067997