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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 83 SW 75
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:COGGERS

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1467 to 1999 Late 15th century, restored 20th century A timber-framed hall house of late 15th century date is located at Coggers near Benenden. The area is marked as Little Walkhurst on the 1st and 2nd edition Ordnance Survey maps (1858-1898), but known as Coggers on the 3rd edition (1905-1922). The house was restored in the 20th century.


Grid Reference:TQ 81694 33790
Map Sheet:TQ83SW
Parish:BENENDEN, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

Monument Types

  • HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1467 AD to 2050 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II*) 1085203: COGGERS

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
BENENDEN TQ83SW WALKHURST ROAD 1350-0/3/149 (East side) 20/06/67 Coggers II* House. Late C15 open hall-house restored C20. Timber-framed with plaster infilling, the 1st floor of the north front jettied with brick ground floor. Steeply pitched tiled roof with gablets and off central brick chimneystack. Early C20 mullioned windows. C20 doorcase to traditional design. Left side ground floor has early C19 brickwork and Invicta firemark. Interior contains roll-moulded dais beam and spere truss to screen. Late C16 spine beam to inserted hall floor. Octagonal crown post with 4 head braces and ogee arched bracing above tie beam. Pargetted decoration to upper chamber walls. Arched tie beam to upper principal chamber. Original wide floorboards. Original diamond mullioned windows to rear.
Listing NGR: TQ8169433790 (1)

Description from record TQ 83 SW 22 :
(TQ816337) Coggers [NAT] (3) House, late 15th century open hall-house restored 20th century. Timber framed with plaster infilling, the first floor of the north front jettied with brick ground floor. Listed Grade II*. [Full architectural description] (2)

Description from record TQ 83 SW 25:
A timber-framed hall house of late 15th century date is located at Coggers near Benenden. The area is marked as Little Walkhurst on the 1st and 2nd edition Ordnance Survey maps (1858-1898), but known as Coggers on the 3rd edition (1905-1922). The house was restored in the 20th century.

End jetty house, jettied at both ends with a formerly open 2-bay hall. (4)

Historic England archive material: BF040449 COGGERS, BENENDEN File of material relating to a site or building. This material has not yet been fully catalogued. Copyright, date, and quantity information for this record may be incomplete or inaccurate.BF092398 COGGERS, BENENDEN, TUNBRIDGE WELLS RCH01/048/01/053 Labelled sheet of drawings of Coggers, Benenden, showing a sketch plan of the ground-floor and a detail section of a dais beam


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

<2> DOE (HHR) Tunbridge Wells 5 July 1993 (82) (OS Card Reference). SKE40665.

<3> OS 1: 10000 (OS Card Reference). SKE48132.

<4> Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T., 1994, A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent (Monograph). SKE8010.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
<2>OS Card Reference: DOE (HHR) Tunbridge Wells 5 July 1993 (82).
<3>OS Card Reference: OS 1: 10000.
<4>Monograph: Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T.. 1994. A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent.