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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 77 NE 1085
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:BARN 30 YARDS NORTH EAST OF COOLING CASTLE GATEHOUSE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1500 to 1899


Grid Reference:TQ 7543 7591
Map Sheet:TQ77NE
Parish:COOLING, MEDWAY, KENT

Monument Types

  • SITE (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1500 AD to 1899 AD)
Protected Status:Scheduled Monument 1009018: COOLING CASTLE AND ITS ASSOCIATED LANDSCAPED SETTING; Listed Building (II) 1281341: BARN 30 YARDS NORTH EAST OF COOLING CASTLE GATEHOUSE

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
COOLING CP TQ 77 NE 2/25 Barn 30 yards north-east of Cooling Castle Gatehouse GV II
Barn. C16 with C19 extension to north. Timber-framed on brick walls and weatherboarded. Hipped plain tiled roof. Central mid-strey. C19 extension to north at east end. Interior: 9 bays with aisles. Roof on braced tie- beams with queen-struts to collars. Posts down-braced onto wall-plates. Elaborate carpentry carrying roof over angle between barn and C19 extension. Hay-crane on swinging-post to right of mid-strey.
Listing NGR: TQ7636776264 (1)

This feature is recorded in the English Heritage Historic Area Assessment for Cooling Parish. For the farmstead as a whole, see the separate monument record MKE 83294. The report states for the barn:
"The L-shaped range of outbuildings, now in separate ownership, include a large timber framed barn (grade II) dating from the 17th century and the 19th century". (2)


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

<2> historic england, 2014, Hoo Peninsula Outline Historic Area Assessment: Cooling Parish. Research Report 51-2014. (Bibliographic reference). SKE31592.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
<2>Bibliographic reference: historic england. 2014. Hoo Peninsula Outline Historic Area Assessment: Cooling Parish. Research Report 51-2014..

Related records

TQ 77 NE 7Part of: Cooling Castle (Monument)