No 82 With No 82A To Rear No 82 With Philip Lodge To Rear

This is a late 18th-century house with a shop front on Rochester High Street, extended onto and incorporating part of an early 16th-century building, significantly remodelled in the 17th century. The front portion (No. 82) is brick; the rear part (No. 82A) is timber-framed with brick underpinning, cladding and stacks. Both sections have Kent-tile roofs.

The front range (No. 82) is part of a cohesive development with Nos. 78 and 80 and presents a three-window, three-storey facade with a dormered attic in a mansard roof. Upper floors feature four or six-pane sash windows, topped by a brick cornice that aligns with the adjacent buildings. Two flat-roofed dormers are visible. The shop front retains details from around 1900. The front elevation should be viewed in conjunction with Nos. 78 and 80. Internally, the building contains a lateral stone fireplace with a four-centred hollow chamfered surround, and one ceiling beam with quarter circle moulding.

The rear house (No. 82A) is a large, three-room, cross-passage house, with original service rooms facing south. It has a hall partitioned at both ends, seemingly never open to the roof. The 17th-century modernisation included raising the upper rooms with front gables, adding a porch and rear stairs, and a large external brick stack. The front, facing west, is primarily 17th-century in appearance, featuring a two-window range with shallow jetties to the first floor and attic, with moulded jetty beams. First-floor windows are four-light casements with leaded panes and some original iron fittings, the left-hand window having an ovolo moulded surround. The ground floor has a three-light Yorkshire sash and a hornless sash window with 16 panes. A gabled porch has a round-headed doorway and a two-light casement window above. To the right is another gabled section with a projecting, storeyed bay featuring a Venetian window with substantial original ironwork and early leading – two decorative figures (originally caryatids) are also present. The ground floor has a pair of hornless sash windows with 12 panes. The return wall to the right is of plain brick. The rear has a large external, gabled stack. Inside, a good staircase has bulbous turned balusters, a dentilled rail, and one newel with a foliated finial. There is 17th-century panelling in the right-hand room and a fireplace dating to around 1910. The room above (the principal bedroom) also has a contemporary fireplace, and the Venetian window has been carefully repaired, retaining original latches, joinery and ironwork. Some original timber framing is visible, showing heavily jowelled posts. Evidence of mortices confirms that the lower-end hall partition was closed, as was the higher end. The roof space is inaccessible.