Source/Archive record (Bibliographic reference) SKE31592 - Hoo Peninsula Outline Historic Area Assessment: Cooling Parish. Research Report 51-2014.
Title | Hoo Peninsula Outline Historic Area Assessment: Cooling Parish. Research Report 51-2014. |
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Author/Originator | historic england |
Date/Year | 2014 |
ISSN | 2046-9799 |
ISSN | 2046-9802 |
Abstract/Summary
Cooling is situated on the north side of the Hoo peninsula and is its smallest parish. Whilst not bordering the Thames, its northern part encompasses low-lying marshland pasture, which rises to the mid-peninsula ridge in the south, with high points at Lodge Hill and Mount Pleasant. The small population is distributed around two small settlements - the village of Cooling and a hamlet at Spendiff - and a number of dispersed farmsteads. Cooling village, in the centre of the parish, is a long-established settlement that contains the remains of a 14th century castle. Unlike Hoo's other settlements, it saw only mininal growth in the 20th century and remains one of the peninsula's unexpanded villages. Spendiff, to its southwest, developed in the 19th century and has agricultural origins. Overall this parish appears to have been largely by-passed by the 19th and 20th industrial development of its neighbours, although a mineral railway and power transmission lines cross it, and a pioneering radio station was built on the marshes in the 1930s. Cooling is a place that is rich in historical associations and retains a prevailing rural character and this Historic Area Assessment provides an overview of its historical development and architectural character.
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Description
Research Report Series 51-2014
Location
Kent County Council Heritage 2016/42
Referenced Monuments (31)
- TQ 77 NE 41 Anti aircraft battery, Marshgate, Cooling (Monument)
- TQ 77 NE 1111 Approximate site of Parsonage and Parsonage Barn, Cooling Parish (Monument)
- TQ 77 SE 1176 BARN 20 YARDS SOUTH EAST OF COOLING COURT, Cooling (Listed Building)
- TQ 77 NE 1085 BARN 30 YARDS NORTH EAST OF COOLING CASTLE GATEHOUSE (Listed Building)
- TQ 77 NE 1118 Broomhey Farm (Broomy Farm), Cooling Parish (Farmstead)
- TQ 77 NE 1113 Cades Cottage, Cooling Parish. (Building)
- TQ 77 NE 1115 Child's Farm Cottages, Cooling Parish (Building)
- TQ 77 NE 1120 Childs Farm, Cooling Parish (Farmstead)
- TQ 77 NE 1077 CHURCH OF ST JAMES, Cooling (Listed Building)
- TQ 77 NE 1076 COMPORT AND BAKER TOMBS 5 YARDS TO SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST JAMES (Listed Building)
- TQ 77 NE 7 Cooling Castle (Monument)
- TQ 77 NE 1112 Cooling Castle Cottage, Cooling Parish (Building)
- TQ 77 NE 1081 COOLING COURT or Cooling Court Farm (Listed Building)
- TQ 77 NE 42 Cooling Radio Station (Building)
- TQ 77 NE 1109 Cooling School (since demolished) (Monument)
- TQ 77 NE 1114 Dove Cottage, Cooling Parish (Building)
- TQ 77 NE 1119 Eastborough Farm, Cooling (Farmstead)
- TQ 77 NE 1117 Farmstead at Cooling Castle, Cooling (Farmstead)
- TQ 77 NE 1108 Horseshoe and Castle Public House, Cooling Parish (Building)
- TQ 77 SE 1118 Lodge Hill Farm - Farmstead south west of Lodge Hill, Cooling (Farmstead)
- TQ 77 SE 1363 Lodge Hill, formerly Cooling Parish, now Hoo St Werburgh Parish. (Monument)
- TQ 77 NE 1079 MARSHGATE AND CARTSHED TO EAST, Cooling (Listed Building)
- TQ 77 SE 1364 Methodist (Wesleyan) chapel and school, Spendiff, Cooling Parish (Building)
- TQ 77 SE 1368 New Barn Farm (New Barn) or Grabhams Farm, Cooling (Farmstead)
- TQ 77 SE 1362 Probable Iron Age or Roman settlement on the lower slopes of Deangate Ridge, overlooking Cooling, Hoo Peninsula. (Monument)
- TQ 77 SE 1365 Range of oast houses in Spendiff, now residential called Orlick Oast, Drummle Oast, Gargery Oast, Kiln House, The Old Granary and the Oasthouse. (Building)
- TQ 77 NE 1110 Rectory, Cooling Parish (Building)
- TQ 77 NE 1048 Roman pottery kiln, sherds and burials at Bromhey Farm, Cooling (Monument)
- TQ 77 NE 32 Romano British encampment, salt and pottery industries, Eastborough Farm, Cooling (Monument)
- TQ 77 NE 1107 Site of Cooling Poorhouse, later Strand Cottages, and now replaced by 1-4 Dickens Walk, Cooling (Monument)
- TQ 77 SE 1369 Spendiff Farm, Cooling (Farmstead)
Referenced Events (1)
- EKE15027 Hoo Peninsula Outline Historic Area Assessment: Cooling Parish. Research Report 2014-51 (Ref: Research Report Series 51-2014)
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