The Ship Inn

The Ship Inn is a public house located on Rochester High Street, dating from the 18th century and consisting of two separate builds. The exterior features stuccoed and painted brick, with a 20th-century interlocking concrete tile roof for No 349 and a Kent-tiled roof for No 347. The building has four bays on the east side (No 349) and two bays on the west side (No 347). No 349 includes one ground floor plate glass sash window, four first floor late 20th-century fixed windows with upper louvred replacements, and four second floor six-pane sash windows. The building has coped parapets and two hipped gabled roofs at right angles, with end stacks. A central door on the ground floor has an early 20th-century cornice that unites both houses, creating a cohesive public house front. The fenestration has been altered, with some areas filled in with brick. No 347 features two first floor 20th-century fixed windows with upper louvred sections, a parapet, and weatherboarded returns and rear with sash windows. The hipped roof has two stacks, and there is a canted angle entrance with pilasters and a cornice above the doorcase on the curve. Inside, the rear lobby of the west build (No 347) has partly panelled walls with a plaster cornice and a pilastered and arched entrance, suggesting a date around 1700.