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ID:SKE31592
Title:Hoo Peninsula Outline Historic Area Assessment: Cooling Parish. Research Report 51-2014.
Originator:historic england
Date:2014
Summary:Cooling is situated on the north side of the Hoo peninsula and is its smallest parish. Whilst not bordering the Thames, its northern part encompasses low-lying marshland pasture, which rises to the mid-peninsula ridge in the south, with high points at Lodge Hill and Mount Pleasant. The small population is distributed around two small settlements - the village of Cooling and a hamlet at Spendiff - and a number of dispersed farmsteads. Cooling village, in the centre of the parish, is a long-established settlement that contains the remains of a 14th century castle. Unlike Hoo's other settlements, it saw only mininal growth in the 20th century and remains one of the peninsula's unexpanded villages. Spendiff, to its southwest, developed in the 19th century and has agricultural origins. Overall this parish appears to have been largely by-passed by the 19th and 20th industrial development of its neighbours, although a mineral railway and power transmission lines cross it, and a pioneering radio station was built on the marshes in the 1930s. Cooling is a place that is rich in historical associations and retains a prevailing rural character and this Historic Area Assessment provides an overview of its historical development and architectural character.

Associated Monuments

TQ 77 NE 41Anti aircraft battery, Marshgate, Cooling (Monument) ()
TQ 77 NE 1111Approximate site of Parsonage and Parsonage Barn, Cooling Parish (Monument) ()
TQ 77 SE 1176BARN 20 YARDS SOUTH EAST OF COOLING COURT, Cooling (Listed Building) ()
TQ 77 NE 1085BARN 30 YARDS NORTH EAST OF COOLING CASTLE GATEHOUSE (Listed Building) ()
TQ 77 NE 1118Broomhey Farm (Broomy Farm), Cooling Parish (Farmstead) ()
TQ 77 NE 1113Cades Cottage, Cooling Parish. (Building) ()
TQ 77 NE 1115Child's Farm Cottages, Cooling Parish (Building) ()
TQ 77 NE 1120Childs Farm, Cooling Parish (Farmstead) ()
TQ 77 NE 1077CHURCH OF ST JAMES, Cooling (Listed Building) ()
TQ 77 NE 1076COMPORT AND BAKER TOMBS 5 YARDS TO SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST JAMES (Listed Building) ()
TQ 77 NE 7Cooling Castle (Monument) ()
TQ 77 NE 1112Cooling Castle Cottage, Cooling Parish (Building) ()
TQ 77 NE 1081COOLING COURT or Cooling Court Farm (Listed Building) ()
TQ 77 NE 42Cooling Radio Station (Building) ()
TQ 77 NE 1109Cooling School (since demolished) (Monument) ()
TQ 77 NE 1114Dove Cottage, Cooling Parish (Building) ()
TQ 77 NE 1119Eastborough Farm, Cooling (Farmstead) ()
TQ 77 NE 1117Farmstead at Cooling Castle, Cooling (Farmstead) ()
TQ 77 NE 1108Horseshoe and Castle Public House, Cooling Parish (Building) ()
TQ 77 SE 1118Lodge Hill Farm - Farmstead south west of Lodge Hill, Cooling (Farmstead) ()
TQ 77 SE 1363Lodge Hill, formerly Cooling Parish, now Hoo St Werburgh Parish. (Monument) ()
TQ 77 NE 1079MARSHGATE AND CARTSHED TO EAST, Cooling (Listed Building) ()
TQ 77 SE 1364Methodist (Wesleyan) chapel and school, Spendiff, Cooling Parish (Building) ()
TQ 77 SE 1368New Barn Farm (New Barn) or Grabhams Farm, Cooling (Farmstead) ()
TQ 77 SE 1362Probable Iron Age or Roman settlement on the lower slopes of Deangate Ridge, overlooking Cooling, Hoo Peninsula. (Monument) ()
TQ 77 SE 1365Range of oast houses in Spendiff, now residential called Orlick Oast, Drummle Oast, Gargery Oast, Kiln House, The Old Granary and the Oasthouse. (Building) ()
TQ 77 NE 1110Rectory, Cooling Parish (Building) ()
TQ 77 NE 1048Roman pottery kiln, sherds and burials at Bromhey Farm, Cooling (Monument) ()
TQ 77 NE 32Romano British encampment, salt and pottery industries, Eastborough Farm, Cooling (Monument) ()
TQ 77 NE 1107Site of Cooling Poorhouse, later Strand Cottages, and now replaced by 1-4 Dickens Walk, Cooling (Monument) ()
TQ 77 SE 1369Spendiff Farm, Cooling (Farmstead) ()