Description

CHATHAM

TQ7567NE NEW ROAD
762-1/4/20 (South West side)
29/10/52 Nos.12-38 (Even)
Chatham House (No.14) and attached
front area and step railings
(Formerly Listed as:
NEW ROAD
(South West side)
Nos.2-38)

GV II

Formerly known as: Gibraltar Place.
Terrace of 14 houses, now offices. 1794. Brick with stone
dressings, some weatherboarded rear elevations, brick ridge
and party wall stacks, and hipped slate and tile roofs.
PLAN: double-depth.
EXTERIOR: each of 3 storeys and basement; 3-window range,
except No.14 (Chatham House), a 4-window range, and Nos 12 and
16, both a 2-window range. The raised ground-floor over a
rendered basement has round-arched openings connected by a
channelled impost band, with a thin cornice and parapet.
No.14 is set forward, with flights of steps up each side to
the central porch with columns, entablature blocks and a
broken pediment, to a doorway with architrave, panelled radial
fanlight and 6-panel door. Wider flanking tripartite windows,
with segmental-arches on the ground-floor with radial
fanlights, and flat-headed above and to the basement; middle
and right-hand narrower 6/6-pane sashes. A large early C20
square lantern is raised behind the parapet, with 7 windows
front and back, and a square lantern on top. Right-hand
round-arched doorway with C20 French windows, and a C20
central door to the stairs.
Flanking 2-window houses have inner round-arched doorways and
outer ground-floor segmental-arched tripartite windows, with
first-floor 6/6 and second-floor 3/6-pane sashes.
The remaining houses to the left are similar, with
round-arched ground-floor openings, and steps up to right-hand
doorways with fanlights and 6-panel doors. Nos 24 and 26 have
a pedimented parapet with an oval panel; No.32 without steps
and door, part of No 30; Nos 32 and 34 have mid C19 2-light
ground-floor bays. Nos 22-30 have weatherboarded rear
elevations and slate hipped roofs.
INTERIOR: No.14 has Ionic columns across the basement, and an
elaborate early C20 central rear early C18-style stair with
fluted newels, column-on-vase balusters and a ramped moulded

rail. The others are mostly fitted with a dogleg stair rising
from an entrance hall, with stick balusters and column newels,
dado, cornice and rising sashes.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front area and entrance step
iron railings, with various foliate or urn finials and
decorative cast-iron balusters.
HISTORY: probably not all built at the same time, and the
different roofs and rear elevation suggest an attempt to unify
an earlier and less uniform row.
Extended Nos 2-10 (qqv) in c1812, this is Chatham town's most
advanced terrace despite the anachronistic use of
weatherboarded timber-frame rear elevations.

Listing NGR: TQ7570667665

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26558542

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Recommended Books

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)