Here's a brain-dump, grouped so you can pick by fixture type and mood.
The throne itself
- Tarnished, verdigris-coated, blackened with age, gilt peeling to bare iron
- Splintered, cracked, listing to one side, listing like a drunkard
- Cushion rotted to a husk, bolster gone to dust, velvet worn to threads
- Footstool with a lion's paw snapped clean off
- Heraldic crest above the seat — broken, missing a quarter, fallen and propped against the back
- A skeleton still upright in the seat (or slumped, or one hand still on the arm)
Banners, tapestries, heraldry
- Moth-eaten, riddled with holes, hanging in tatters
- Faded beyond reading, colors leached to the tone of old bone
- Edges brown and brittle, crisp enough to crumble at a touch
- Standards collapsed on their poles, pooling on the floor
- A still-legible motto beside a crest you can no longer trace
Lighting — chandeliers, braziers, sconces
- Sconces unlit so long the wax has fused to the wall
- Chandeliers hanging at a slant, a third of their candles rotted away
- Braziers full of cold ash, a skin of ash over cold ash
- Lanterns with panes clouded opaque, doors hanging open on one hinge
Metal and hardware in general
- Rusted to the wall, fused at the joint, pitted beyond polishing
- Lock long since corroded shut (or wide open, key long gone)
- Hinges seized, hinges screaming if forced
- Nails protruding from rotted wood
Stone, columns, floor
- Tiles heaved and cracked, mosaics missing pieces
- Mortar dust on the floor like dirty snow
- Stalactites of grime from the ceiling
- Stain rings on the dais where bowls of fruit once stood
Textiles — carpets, runners, canopies
- Baldachin sagging, fringe trailing on the floor, one post snapped
- Carpet runner worn to a threadbare stripe by feet long since dust
- Canopy fabric draped like dead skin
Ambient / sensory phrases (good for the first paragraph)
- The dust of a hundred unvisited coronations
- Cobwebs thick as bunting, sagging from every rafter
- A smell of cold iron and old velvet
- Motes turning slow in the one shaft of light that finds the room
- Silence so settled it has weight
- Last sat upon by a king no chronicler bothered to name
- The throne's red was once the red of a beating heart; now it is the red of dried blood
- The room holds its breath, expecting the next sitter
One-line opener ideas
- The throne had not borne a sitter in so long that the dust on its arms kept its own shape.
- A century of stillness had given the room a kind of grandeur again — ruin's own dignity.
- Everything noble in the room had been eaten down to its skeleton: gilt to iron, silk to thread, bread to crumb.
If you tell me the genre and tone (grimdark fairy tale? cozy-but-haunted? gothic horror?), I can sharpen the list further — disrepair is wildly different in a Beardsworth illustration than in a Mervyn Peake scene.