Description

1.
944 ST PETER'S STREET

Nos 53 and 53A
(Cogan House)
TR 1457 NE 4/79A 3.5.67.
II* GV

2.
A complete list of the occupiers of this house exists back to the late C12.
It was originally called Cockyns Hospital after William Cockyn (d l203). This
was later changed to Cogans Hospital after John Cogan who occupied the house
from 1626-1657 and on his death founded a hospital there for the widows of
ministers.
The front elevation is outwardly C19. 3 storeys red brick. Old tiled roof
in 2 hips. 4 cambered sashes. 2 bays on 1st floor. Ground floor has later
C19 shop front with marble risers and a triglyph and paterae frieze. Behind
this is an L-shaped mediaeval building of hall type with walls of flint, chalk
and stone 2 ft 3 ins thick. It is one of the few stone houses in Canterbury
to survive. The interior has been much altered but has a stone pointed doorway
in the hall and its original king-post in the attic. An addition was made on the
south side by John Bygg mercer and mayor of Canterbury, about 1473. This has
a heavily panelled and moulded ceiling of oak on tile ground floor, and carved
doorways an the 1st floor. The hall has parchemin panelling, probably erected
by John Bygg's widow, Constance, (d 1513), and carved frieze above it, put
up by John Thomas, hosier, in the early C16. Later in the C16, Ralph Baldwin added a panelled parlour with a plaster ceiling on the site of the courtyard
facing the street and a similar room above it. He also probably inserted
the staircase (of which the upper portion was altered in 1870). The house
remained a hospital for the widows of ministers from l668-1870. The building
was completely refronted in 1870.

Nos 49 to 60 (consec), Methodist Church and forecourt to Methodist Church
form a group.

Listing NGR: TR1473057959

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17557098

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)