8 And 10, New Road

CHATHAM

TQ7567NE NEW ROAD 762-1/4/19 (South West side) 29/10/52 Nos.8 AND 10 (Formerly Listed as: NEW ROAD, Chatham Town Nos.2-38 (Even))

GV II

Pair of terraced houses, now offices. c1812. Brick, rendered basement, weatherboarded rear, brick party wall and ridge stacks, hipped slate roof. STYLE: Late Georgian. PLAN: double-depth plan. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement; 6-window range. Raised over a full basement, with a thin cornice and coped parapet; ground-floor openings in elliptical-arched recesses connected by channelled impost bands. Steps up to left-hand doorways with 8-panel doors, narrow overlights with pointed-arched panes, and 6/6-pane sashes, 3/6-pane second-floor sashes. Wide 10/10-pane basement sashes, and doorways under the stairs. INTERIOR: No.8 has a central lateral dogleg stair with stick balusters, curtail and wreathed rail, and a glazed lantern dome, with round arches dividing the entrance hall. Connected internally to No.10. HISTORY: part of a varied terrace (qqv), started in 1794, and the most advanced in Chatham despite the anachronistic use of a timber-framed rear elevation. (The Buildings of England: Newman J: West Kent and the Weald: London: 1976-: 203).

Listing NGR: TQ7570667665