Exploring Kent's Past

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Monument details

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1567 to 1999

Monument Types

• SITE (Post Medieval to Modern - 1567 AD to 1999 AD)

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
ISLE OF GRAIN CP HIGH STREET TQ 87 NE 4/75 West side 21.11.66 The Hogarth Inn - II
House, later the Cock Inn and the Post Office, now Public House. Late C16, altered in C20. Timber-framed with hipped tiled roof. 2 storeys. 4 horizontal sliding sash windows on first-floor and 3 C20 square bays on ground-floor. West end of brick with large stack and two brick mullioned windows, now blocked. East end with catslide extension. Interior: Floor beams chamfered and stopped throughout. As the Cock it was visited in 1732 by William Hogarth and party, and drawings survive of this visit.
Listing NGR: TQ8861276589

Described in Isle of Grain Historic Area Assessment conducted by English Heritage in 2014 as "a hostelry, a late 16th century building known in the 18th and 19th century as The Cock Inn". "The pub also retains a large 19th century brick and tile outbuilding" (2).

<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> English Heritage, 2014, Isle of Grain, Hoo Peninsula, Kent: Historic area assessment (Monograph). SKE29397.

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