Thorney Lodge


Thorney Lodge, located on 15 Luton Road, is a Grade II listed building in Chatham, Kent, England. The lodge was granted a Grade II listed status on April 25, 1985. It falls immediately outside the area of the Chatham Centre Design Code.

Architectural details

The house dates from circa 1840 and is constructed of brick with squared, coursed stucco render, beneath a roof of twentieth-century machined tiles. It is arranged over two storeys with a half-basement and is three bays wide.
The principal elevation features two ground-floor sash windows with glazing bars, each set within raised stucco rusticated block surrounds with keystone lintels. At first-floor level are three sash windows with glazing bars, also framed by rusticated block surrounds. The central bay and building angles are articulated by advanced pilaster strips, with rusticated quoins present on the western angle only.
A contemporary wooden trellis-work porch projects at ground level. This incorporates a four-centred arched opening with sunburst motifs in the spandrels, trellis-work outer panels and fascia, and a brattished cornice. The roof is a low-pitched, swept hipped metal roof with projecting eaves and a central finial. Two off-ridge brick chimney stacks rise to the rear.
The returns contain a single two-centred arched opening with trellis work and internally returned contemporary seating. The entrance comprises a two-panel door with inserted glazed upper lights and a rectangular fanlight. The rear elevation includes one ground-floor and two first-floor sash windows, all retaining glazing bars.
The interior retains a number of original and early features, including two four-panel doors at ground-floor level and six-panel raised-and-fielded doors on the first floor, all with moulded architrave surrounds. The staircase is contemporary to the building and features turned newel posts, stick balusters, and a mahogany handrail. The first-floor landing incorporates a simple wooden arch supported by thin pilasters with bases and capitals.
Thorney Lodge was once owned by Margaret Thompson, who rescued it from demolition for road widening in the 1980s.
In 2008, Thorney Lodge was sold for £121,000 as a freehold property.