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Monument details

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1500 to 1599 All Saints Court and Cottage

Monument Types

• HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1500 AD to 2050 AD)

Full description

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Description from record TR 15 NW 72:
(TR 14795797) All Saints Court [NAT]. (TR 14805798) All Saints Cottage [NAT]. (1) All Saints Cottage, All Saints Court, All Saints Lane. A C16 L-shaped timber-framed range. 2 storeys timber-framed with plaster infill and painted brick on ground floor. Old tiled roof with central brick stack. Guttering is suppported by simple iron brackets. 5 casements in original window openings. Overhang supported on joists and eleborate carved brackets in the form of fabulous beasts. The ground floor has casement windows. (2) Additional bibliography. (3) 15thc timber framed range, continuous jettty, central stack, 18thc and 19thc rear brick wing extensions. (4)

A building survey of the medieval part of the structure was carried out by the Canterbury Archaeological Trust in 2007. The report concluded "The Trust's
analysis showed the building to be unusual and of some interest, its features suggesting a
construction date around the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century. One currently held
theory, that this was a "terrace" or row, of perhaps three or even six dwellings, all contained
within one timber-framed structure, seems unlikely in light of recent observations. The
presence of only one staircase, providing independent access to the first floor from the street
(i.e. there were no stairs linking the ground floor rooms to the first floor rooms), seems the
most compelling evidence that this was not a row of dwellings." (5)

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. ALL SAINTS LANE
944 (South East Side)
All Saints Cottage.
- All Saints Court.
3.12.49.
TR 1457 NE 4/88
II* GV
2,
A C16 L-shaped timber-framed range. 2 storeys timber-framed with plaster infill and painted brick on ground floor. Old tiled roof with central brick stack. Guttering is supported by simple iron brackets. 5 casements in original window openings. Overhang supported on joists and elaborate carved brackets in the form of fabulous beasts. The ground floor has casement windows and
simple doorcases. All Saints Cottage is weatherboarded and has a 2 to 3 storey red brick extension with a C19 tiled roof. Passage through to rear of the building on the left side.

All Saints Cottage, All Saints Court, Building adjoining All Saints Court to the South West forms a group with No 5A St Peter's Street.
Listing NGR: TR1479757978(6)

All Saints Court was subject to a historic building survey in 2007. The survey concluded that the building never formed any sort of open hall. It was thought to have been constructed in the late 15th or 16th century. The belief that it orignallly formed a terrace of houses was challenged by the single staircase to the first floor. The absence of window shutters or a hearth (in its orignal form) may suggest a non-domestic function. (5)

<1> OS 1:2500 1957 (OS Card Reference). SKE48200.

<2> DOE (HHR) City of Canterbury Kent Sept 1973 1 (OS Card Reference). SKE39978.

<3> BOE NE & E Kent 1983 253 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE38208.

<4> Hist Builds Survey Cant City Council RCHME 57020 (OS Card Reference). SKE43829.

<5> Canterbury Archaeological Trust Ltd, 2007, desk-based archaeological assessment of the site and buildings of the Diocesan and Payne-Smith School, Broad Street, Canterbury (extract) (Unpublished document). SKE52612.

<6> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<7> Canterbury Archaeological Trust Ltd, 2009, All Saints Court, All Saints Lane, Canterbury, Kent, Watching brief report (Unpublished document). SKE53411.

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