Description

GILLINGHAM

TQ76NE
686-1/7/72
21/12/73

LOWER RAINHAM ROAD, Grange
(North East side)
No.147
Peckham Lodge

GV
II

House. Late C18, extended mid-late C19. Brick, rendered to
front, brick lateral stacks and hipped slate roof. PLAN:
double-depth with left-hand extension.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 3-window range. Main house a right-hand
1-window range set forward with a round-arched doorway within
a similar recess with mid C20 fanlight and 6-panel door, and a
3/3-pane sash above; 2-window right-hand return has
segmental-arched 6/6-pane sashes. Rear has a wide full-height
canted bay with rubbed brick flat arches to 6/6-pane sashes.
Lower C19 left-hand 2-window section with 6/6-pane sashes.
INTERIOR: entrance stair hall with a right-hand front dogleg
stair with stick balusters and column newels, a left-hand
passage to rear room, and large rear first-floor room with a
marble fire surround. Front window has rising sash shutters.
HISTORY: reported to have been built for the Commander of the
estuary forts, over which the large rear first-floor room
commands a view.

Listing NGR: TQ7987168657

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26550825

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Recommended Books

• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings