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.
Author/Originator
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)

  • Anti aircraft battery, Marshgate, Cooling (Monument)
  • Approximate site of Parsonage and Parsonage Barn, Cooling Parish (Monument)
  • BARN 20 YARDS SOUTH EAST OF COOLING COURT, Cooling (Listed Building)
  • BARN 30 YARDS NORTH EAST OF COOLING CASTLE GATEHOUSE (Listed Building)
  • Broomhey Farm (Broomy Farm), Cooling Parish (Farmstead)
  • Cades Cottage, Cooling Parish. (Building)
  • Child's Farm Cottages, Cooling Parish (Building)
  • Childs Farm, Cooling Parish (Farmstead)
  • CHURCH OF ST JAMES, Cooling (Listed Building)
  • COMPORT AND BAKER TOMBS 5 YARDS TO SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST JAMES (Listed Building)
  • Cooling Castle (Monument)
  • Cooling Castle Cottage, Cooling Parish (Building)
  • COOLING COURT or Cooling Court Farm (Listed Building)
  • Cooling Radio Station (Building)
  • Cooling School (since demolished) (Monument)
  • Dove Cottage, Cooling Parish (Building)
  • Eastborough Farm, Cooling (Farmstead)
  • Farmstead at Cooling Castle, Cooling (Farmstead)
  • Horseshoe and Castle Public House, Cooling Parish (Building)
  • Lodge Hill Farm - Farmstead south west of Lodge Hill, Cooling (Farmstead)
  • Lodge Hill, formerly Cooling Parish, now Hoo St Werburgh Parish. (Monument)
  • MARSHGATE AND CARTSHED TO EAST, Cooling (Listed Building)
  • Methodist (Wesleyan) chapel and school, Spendiff, Cooling Parish (Building)
  • New Barn Farm (New Barn) or Grabhams Farm, Cooling (Farmstead)
  • Probable Iron Age or Roman settlement on the lower slopes of Deangate Ridge, overlooking Cooling, Hoo Peninsula. (Monument)
  • Range of oast houses in Spendiff, now residential called Orlick Oast, Drummle Oast, Gargery Oast, Kiln House, The Old Granary and the Oasthouse. (Building)
  • Rectory, Cooling Parish (Building)
  • Roman pottery kiln, sherds and burials at Bromhey Farm, Cooling (Monument)
  • Romano British encampment, salt and pottery industries, Eastborough Farm, Cooling (Monument)
  • Site of Cooling Poorhouse, later Strand Cottages, and now replaced by 1-4 Dickens Walk, Cooling (Monument)
  • 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)

Record last edited

Oct 4 2016 11:09AM