Restoration House

Eastgate House is a Grade I listed Elizabethan townhouse in Rochester, Kent, England. It is notable for its association with author Charles Dickens, featuring as Westgate in The Pickwick Papers and as the Nun's House in The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Now a Dickens Museum, the grounds of Eastgate House contain the Swiss chalet in which Dickens penned several of his novels.

The French Hospital was founded in 1718 in Finsbury on behalf of poor French Protestants and their descendants residing in Great Britain. In the 1860s it moved into the spectacular purpose-built hospital designed by Robert Lewis Roumieu in Victoria Park, Hackney, and then in the 1940s moved out of London to Compton's Lea, Horsham, West Sussex. Since 1959 it has been located in Rochester, Kent and today provides almshouse accommodation for Huguenot descendants.

Medway Adult Education is the principal provider of adult and community learning services in the Medway unitary authority area of Kent, England. Operated as a department of Medway Council, it delivers a comprehensive range of adult learning opportunities and nationally accredited qualifications across Medway, primarily funded by the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA). MAE operates two main permanent centres: the historic Rochester Centre, housed in the Grade II listed former Rochester Technical Institute (1905–06), and the Medway Learning & Skills Hub in Gillingham.

The Diocese of Rochester is a Church of England diocese in the English county of Kent and the Province of Canterbury. The cathedral church of the diocese is Rochester Cathedral in the former city of Rochester. The bishop's Latin episcopal signature is: " (firstname) Roffen", Roffensis being the genitive case of the Latin name of the see. An ancient diocese, it was established with the authority of King Æthelberht of Kent by Augustine of Canterbury in 604 at the same time as the see of London. Only the adjacent Diocese of Canterbury is older in England. Its establishment was the first part of an unrealised plan conceived by Pope Gregory the Great for Augustine of Canterbury to consecrate 12 bishops in different places and another 12 for the prospective see (later province) of York.The Rochester diocese includes 268 parish churches throughout: the western part of the county of Kent the London Borough of Bexley the London Borough of Bromley;The diocese is subdivided into three archdeaconries: Archdeaconry of Bromley & Bexley (Archdeacon: Allie Kerr) Archdeaconry of Rochester (Archdeacon: Andy Wooding Jones) Archdeaconry of Tonbridge (Archdeacon: Sharon Copestake);The current diocesan boundaries roughly match its pre-19th century extent. On 1 January 1846 parishes in Hertfordshire from the dioceses of Lincoln and of London and Essex (from London diocese) were added to Rochester, while all West Kent parishes except those in the Rochester Deanery were transferred to the Diocese of Canterbury. In May 1877, Essex and Hertfordshire became part of the newly created Diocese of St Albans. On 1 August 1877, the Diocese of Rochester gained some northern parts of Surrey from the Diocese of Winchester and the Diocese of London which were later transferred to the Diocese of Southwark at its creation in 1905.

Rochester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary, is in Rochester, Kent, England. The cathedral is the mother church of the Anglican Diocese of Rochester and seat (cathedra) of the Bishop of Rochester, the second oldest bishopric in England after that of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The cathedral, built in the Norman style is a Grade I listed building.

The King's School, Rochester, is an independent co-educational day and boarding school in Rochester, Kent. It is a cathedral school and, being part of the foundation of Rochester Cathedral, the Dean of Rochester serves as chair of the school's governing body. The school claims to be the second oldest continuously operating school in the world, having been founded in 604 AD.

St Nicholas Church is a former parish church in Rochester, Kent, England, next to Rochester Cathedral. It is now the offices of the Board of Education of the Diocese of Rochester. It is a Grade I listed building.

The Royal Crown Hotel is a Grade II listed building located at 2 High Street at the junction with The Esplanade in Rochester, Kent, England. The former public house and hotel was constructed between 1859 and 1861 as a Victorian commercial building serving travellers and residents at the strategic gateway to Rochester Bridge across the River Medway. The building was granted Grade II listed status on 2 December 1991 (List Entry Number: 1336126). The structure remains a prominent landmark within the Historic Rochester Conservation Area.

Rochester railway station is on the Chatham Main Line in England, serving the town of Rochester, Kent. It is 33 miles 61 chains (54.3 km) down the line from London Victoria and is situated between Sole Street and Chatham. The station and most trains that call are operated by Southeastern and Thameslink, including a handful of peak services to and from Bedford operated by the latter. In December 2015 a new station on Corporation Street opened 500 metres (1,600 ft) to the west of the original station which it replaced. It is now closer to the town centre and its historic buildings.

The Corn Exchange is a commercial complex in the High Street, Rochester, Kent, England. The complex, which was commissioned as a corn exchange and is now used as an events venue, is a Grade I listed building.

Hayward House is an early 19th-century almshouse at 1–8 Corporation Street in Rochester, Kent, England. Designed by Robert Baker and completed in 1823, it originally housed aged "industrious poor" from St Nicholas parish. A red-brick Georgian-style block of three storeys with a symmetrical 3–1–3 bay front, it remains a Grade II listed building. Today Hayward House is managed by the Richard Watts Charities and provides six self-contained flats.

The George Vaults (formerly the George Inn) at 35 High Street in Rochester, Kent, is a public house built over a remarkable early 14th-century vaulted undercroft. The undercroft dates to circa 1320–1325 and is of exceptional historical importance, giving the building its Grade II* listing. The present three-storey brick pub front (added in the late 18th/19th century) features a central glazed double door and large windows at street level, with a Venetian window on the first floor. The pub is situated just below Rochester Castle and Cathedral on the old High Street – a location that aligns with the medieval street plan of Roman Watling Street.