Prior'S Gate House With Garden Wall

ROCHESTER THE PRECINCT TQ 7468 SW 7/200; 9/200 Prior's Gate House with Garden Wall 24-10-50 GV II Former house, now 3 dwellings. C18 main range with early C19 rear and entrance wings. The main house is a rebuilding of a range that elsewhere incorporates remains of the former Bishops' Palace (College Green and Southgate, qv); there appears to be no medieval work surviving above ground inside Prior's Gate House. Red brick; Welsh slate hipped roofs. Six prominent brick stacks to whole. Garden front: 2½ storeys, regular 5-window range: parapet with stone coping and brick cornice band; sill band between ground and 1st floors. Upper half storey with 3 3-light and one 2-light casement windows, with two blocked windows in addition, all within elliptical arched recesses. Otherwise, 12- pane hornless sashes in exposed frames, some original, under depressed window arches. To the left, the later 2-storey range (one sash window to ground floor, one blocked window above) which returns to form the present regular 5-window entrance front (E), all except one blocked window with 12-pane sashes in exposed frames. Rear wing and elevation with variously disposed sash and some casement windows. Central porch incorporates a random rubble ragstone wall which rises to take a shaped stone coping and a re-used medieval 4-centred arch. The attached garden wall with gabled coping is included in this listing. It returns W as an C18 brick wall, on rubble plinth, with cogged course below coping; 2 piers to C19 gateway. This wall continues to form garden wall of College Green and Southgate (qv).

Listing NGR: TQ7421368475