Listed Building: 4 AND 6 NEW ROAD (1268206)

CHATHAM TQ7567NE NEW ROAD 762-1/4/18 (South West side) 29/10/52 Nos.4 AND 6 (Formerly Listed as: NEW ROAD, Chatham Town Nos.2-38 (Even)) GV II Pair of terraced houses, now offices. Dated 1812. Brick, rendered basement, weatherboarded rear, brick party wall and ridge stacks, hipped slate roofs. PLAN: double-depth. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement; 4-window range. Raised over a full basement, with a thin cornice, and coped parapet raised to a central pediment with an oval dated panel; ground-floor openings in elliptical-arched recesses connected by channelled impost bands. Steps up each side to doorways with 6-panel doors, narrow overlights, with 6/6-pane sashes, 3/6-pane second-floor sashes. No.4 has a large mid C20 2-storey oriel with 3 plate-glass sashes. INTERIOR: altered mid C20. 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: TQ7569467672