2, New Road

CHATHAM

TQ7567NE NEW ROAD 762-1/4/17 (South West side) 29/10/52 No.2 (Formerly Listed as: NEW ROAD, Chatham Town Nos.2-38 (Even))

GV II

Terraced house, now office. c1812, extended late C19. Brick, render, party wall stacks, roof not visible. PLAN: double-depth. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement; 3:4-window range. Raised over a full brick basement, with a coped parapet, left-hand early C19 3-storey section, and late C19 2-storey extension with a central 1-bay entrance and a right-hand full-width canted bay. 1812 block has ground- and first-floor round-arched recesses connected by a channelled impost band, with 6/6-pane and second-floor 3/6-pane sashes; mid C20 basement windows and right-hand door separated by low buttresses. Right-hand section has a double stair flight curving up from the centre of the bay to each side, double half-glazed mid C20 doors with a 6-pane overlight and plate-glass first-floor sash, the 3-light bay has 6/6-pane sashes, the middle one in a flat-headed recess. INTERIOR: altered mid C20. HISTORY: part of a varied terrace (qqv) started in 1794, and the most advanced in Chatham. (The Buildings of England: Newman J: West Kent and the Weald: London: 1976-: 203).

Listing NGR: TQ7568367682