Inner Ward to Cooling Castle
INNER WARD TO COOLING CASTLE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1085771
- Date first listed:
- 21-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Inner Ward to Cooling Castle
- Statutory Address:
- INNER WARD TO COOLING CASTLE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1085771
- Date first listed:
- 21-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Inner Ward to Cooling Castle
- Statutory Address 1:
- INNER WARD TO COOLING CASTLE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- INNER WARD TO COOLING CASTLE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Medway (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cooling
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 75368 75942
Details
COOLING CP TQ 77 NE 2/24 Inner ward to Cooling 21.11.66 Castle GV I
Inner ward to Cooling Castle. 1381-85, ruined since 1554. Henry Yevele was engaged as Surveyor with Thomas Wrek and William Sharnhale as masons. Ragstone. Rectangular enclosure, moated, with round angle-turrets originally machicolated. Turretted gateway near centre of east wall. 3-bay vaulted undercroft with quadripartite vaults and chamfered ribs on short wall-shafts. Wall faced externally at this point in knapped flint with some stone chequer work. Cooling Castle was the seat of the de Cobham family after 1214 but the licence to crenellate was only granted in 1381, partly as a defence for the sea-access to London, commemmorated on a copper plate in the east tower, formerly on the gate-house, which reads: 'Knouwyth that beth and schul be/ That I am mad in help of the cuntre/ In knowyng of whyche thyng/ Thys is chartre and wytnessyng.' The Castle was abandoned after Wyatt's rebellion in 1554, when the family left for Cobham. Cooling Castle is scheduled as an Ancient Monument. BOE, Kent, I, 239.
Listing NGR: TQ7636776264
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 172857
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: West Kent and the Weald, (1980), 239
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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