16, Medway Road

No. 16 Medway Road is a house located in Gillingham, dating from the late 17th century and refronted around 1820. It is built from yellow stock brick with stone dressings, featuring lateral stacks and a slate hipped roof, and is designed in the Italianate style. The house has two storeys and a basement, with a three-window range and a double-fronted appearance. The exterior includes a parapet with sunken panels for each bay, windows set in shallow vertical recesses, and rubbed brick arches. There are steps leading up to a central round-arched doorway, which is also set in a matching recess and features a tear-drop metal fanlight and an eight-panel door. The ground-floor windows are round-arched, while the first-floor windows are flat-headed with 6/6-pane sashes. Additionally, there are two small basement windows. Inside, the house has a round hall arch leading to a central staircase, which features a curtail, a cast-iron newel post, stick balusters, and a wreathed rail, along with panelled shutters and six-panel doors. This house is part of a group of similarly styled houses on Medway Road.