1. 944 ST PETER'S STREET Nos 53 and 53A (Cogan House) TR 1457 NE 4/79A 3.5.67. II* GV 2. A complete list of the occupiers of this house exists back to the late C12. It was originally called Cockyns Hospital after William Cockyn (d l203). This was later changed to Cogans Hospital after John Cogan who occupied the house from 1626-1657 and on his death founded a hospital there for the widows of ministers. The front elevation is outwardly C19. 3 storeys red brick. Old tiled roof in 2 hips. 4 cambered sashes. 2 bays on 1st floor. Ground floor has later C19 shop front with marble risers and a triglyph and paterae frieze. Behind this is an L-shaped mediaeval building of hall type with walls of flint, chalk and stone 2 ft 3 ins thick. It is one of the few stone houses in Canterbury to survive. The interior has been much altered but has a stone pointed doorway in the hall and its original king-post in the attic. An addition was made on the south side by John Bygg mercer and mayor of Canterbury, about 1473. This has a heavily panelled and moulded ceiling of oak on tile ground floor, and carved doorways an the 1st floor. The hall has parchemin panelling, probably erected by John Bygg's widow, Constance, (d 1513), and carved frieze above it, put up by John Thomas, hosier, in the early C16. Later in the C16, Ralph Baldwin added a panelled parlour with a plaster ceiling on the site of the courtyard facing the street and a similar room above it. He also probably inserted the staircase (of which the upper portion was altered in 1870). The house remained a hospital for the widows of ministers from l668-1870. The building was completely refronted in 1870. Nos 49 to 60 (consec), Methodist Church and forecourt to Methodist Church form a group. Listing NGR: TR1473057959