Thorney Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 April 1985. House.
Thorney Lodge
- WRENN ID
- quiet-garret-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Chatham and Aylesford MP: Tristan Osborne (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 April 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Thorney Lodge, 15, Luton Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 765 673
- Coordinates
- 51.37817, 0.5353
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thorney Lodge is a house built around 1840, featuring squared, coursed stucco render on brick with 20th-century machined tiles. The building has two storeys and a half basement, with three bays. On the ground floor, there are two sash windows with glazing bars, each framed by raised stucco rustication block surrounds with keystone lintels. The first floor has three sash windows with glazing bars and similar rustication block surrounds. The centre bay and the corners are accentuated with advanced pilaster strips, and there are rusticated quoins on the west side only.
A contemporary wooden porch with trellis work features a 4-centred arch adorned with sunbursts in the spandrels, trellis work outer panels, and a brattished cornice. The roof is a swept hipped metal design topped with a central finial. The returns of the porch have a single 2-centred arch opening with trellis work and internal contemporary returned seats. The entrance includes a two-panel door with inserted glazed upper lights and a rectangular fanlight. The eaves project over a low-pitched roof that has two off-ridge brick stacks at the rear. The rear of the house has one ground floor sash and two first floor sashes, all with glazing bars.
Inside, the ground floor features two 4-panel doors and the first floor has six-panel raised and fielded doors, all with moulded architrave surrounds. The staircase is contemporary, with turned newels, stick balusters, and a mahogany rail. The landing includes a simple wooden arch supported by thin pilasters with bases and capitals.
Local climate
Thorney Lodge sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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