Canon Cottage the Old Canonry
CANON COTTAGE, CANTERBURY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1281551
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Canon Cottage the Old Canonry
- Statutory Address:
- CANON COTTAGE, CANTERBURY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1281551
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Canon Cottage the Old Canonry
- Statutory Address 1:
- CANON COTTAGE, CANTERBURY ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE OLD CANONRY, CANTERBURY ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CANON COTTAGE, CANTERBURY ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD CANONRY, CANTERBURY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Dover (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wingham
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 24246 57401
Details
TR 2457 WINGHAM CANTERBURY ROAD (south side) 9/340 The Old Canonry 13.10.52 and Canon Cottage
GV I
House, sometime house pair. Circa 1285 and C15. Timber framed on flint under croft and exposed frame with plaster infill. Plain tiled roof. Two storeys to right. one storey and attic to left on flint base, with jetty on dragon post and brackets to right and returned to right side elevation. Pierced and enriched bargeboard to right-hand wing, and 2 hipped dormers to left with stacks to rear right. Three-light mullioned and transomed window on first floor, and 3 mullioned windows and 8-light mullioned and transomed shallow oriel to right on ground floor, with adjacent door of 7 glazed transomed lights with 3 base panels in four- centred arched surround, both C15 and only uncovered 1893 by removal of plaster. C20 boarded door at end left in arched doorway of 2 derns. Outshot at end left. Basement openings to centre. Right return with 2 wooden casements on each left. Basement openings to centre. Right return with 2 wooden casements on each fooor and rib and stud door in four- centred arched surround. Interior: the low left-hand wing appears to be an intact survival of the row of canons' houses for Wingham College, founded by Archbishop Peckham, 1282, and building from 1283 onwards. The undercroft, the jetty, and the sans-purlin roof are all of that date. The 2-storey range, although on a C13 undercroft is late C15, with contemporary panelling, and fine crown- post roof. The historical and architectural details for this and many other buildings in Wingham are to be found in A. Hussey, Chronicles of Wingham, 1896; E.W.Parkin, Arch. Can. XCIII, 1977; and an upublished thesis for Canterbury University by Dr. David
Listing NGR: TR2424657400
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 178372
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hussey, A, Chronicles of Wingham, (1896)
Archaeologia Cantiana in Archaeologia Cantiana, Vol. 93, (1977)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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