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Monument details

HER Number:TR 15 NE 508
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:THE ARCHDEACON OF CANTERBURY'S HOUSE

Summary

Grade I listed building. Main construction periods 1380 to 1420. Originally built for the use of guests of the monastery circa 1400 by Prior Chillenden and incorporates parts of the monastery kitchen and Pentise Gatehouse. Rebuilt after sustaining damage during the Second World War. Now the Archdeacon of Canterbury's house.


Grid Reference:TR 1508 5800
Map Sheet:TR15NE
Parish:CANTERBURY, CANTERBURY, KENT

Monument Types

  • BUILDING (Medieval to Modern - 1380 AD to 2050 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (I) 1336791: THE ARCHDEACON OF CANTERBURY'S HOUSE

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 944 THE CATHEDRAL PRECINCTS
No 29 (The Archdeacon of Canterbury's House) TR 1558 SW 3/18 3.12.49.
I GV
2. Built by Prior Chillenden circa 1400 as guest lodgings. It incorporates parts of the monastery kitchen and Pentise Gatehouse. The east end has been rebuilt, following war damage, with the original materials. 2 storeys flint, brick and some reused mediaeval ashlar, Renewed tiled roof with 4 hipped dormers. The 1st floor has 3 cambered sashes. The ground floor has 3 double lancets with hood moulding and 1 triple lancet. The rear elevation is partly timber-framed and plastered and part flint and stone. At the west end is a projecting timbered gable on the 2nd floor. Towards the east end is another gable with a projecting bay window below it supported on 2 wooden columns. One C15 window of 2 trefoiled headed lights. The other windows are C18 sashes. Massive flint and ashlar chimney stack. The interior has an overmantel of circa 1600 in one room.
Nos 20 to 29A (consec), PIlgrim's or Pentise entry attached to No 29, wall in garden of No 29, wall and gatepiers betwen Nos 28 and 29, Gateway from Green Court and building adjoining to left, King`s School Library and Norman staircase form a group.
Listing NGR: TR1507358026 (1-4)

Description from record TR 15 NE 60:
No 29 Cathedral Precincts


<1> DOE (HHR) City of Canterbury Kent Sept 1973 72 (OS Card Reference). SKE40134.

<2> Hist Builds Survey Cant City Council/RCHME 57022 7 of 12 (OS Card Reference). SKE43849.

<3> OS 1/500 1874 (OS Card Reference). SKE48131.

<4> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>OS Card Reference: DOE (HHR) City of Canterbury Kent Sept 1973 72.
<2>OS Card Reference: Hist Builds Survey Cant City Council/RCHME 57022 7 of 12.
<3>OS Card Reference: OS 1/500 1874.
<4>XYMap: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Mapped feature: #24535 Listed building, ]

Related records

TR 15 NE 125Part of: Canterbury Christ Church Cathedral (Listed Building)