Description

ROCHESTER THE PRECINCT
TQ 7468 SW
9/191 Garth House
GV II
Former choir school, now cathedral offices. Circa 1870s. Red
brick with sandstone dressings; tiled gable-end roof with stone
coping. Hall forms upper floor of 2 storey range aligned N/S and
end-on to street. Side elevation (W), 2 gabled 2-light 1st floor
Decorated-style windows flank a central external stack (with 2
brick shafts and stone band with inscription) which widens out
at ground floor level to frame a small 2-light gabled window.
C20 casements to ground floor. Street front: large 3-light
Decorated-style window, 4 trefoil-headed lancets to ground floor.
Entrance to right: a later shallow porch flush with S face of
hall range (and with simple pointed doorway, and standing forward
of the wall plane of Cloister House (qv) to which it is attached.
Rear: 3 light window to hall; lancets to angle stair turret.
Interior: hall divided into offices with false ceiling in part;
good hammer-beam roof survives intact. (This building overbuilds
and backs on to parts of the S range of the cloister (refectory)
of the cathedral, see ref 9/88).

Listing NGR: TQ7425768456

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26620691

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)