12 metres (39 ft) (gatehouse), up to 9 metres (30 ft) (walls)
Site information
Owner
Private owners
Condition
Ruined
Site history
Built
1380s
Built by
John Cobham
In use
1380s-c.1554
Materials
Kentish ragstone, flint, chalk rubble
Events
Wyatt's rebellion
Scheduled monument
Official name
Cooling Castle and its associated landscaped setting
Designated
25 January 1946
Reference no.
1009018
Listed Building – Grade I
Official name
Cooling Castle Gatehouse
Designated
21 November 1966
Reference no.
1085770
Listed Building – Grade I
Official name
Inner Ward to Cooling Castle
Designated
21 November 1966
Reference no.
1085771
Cooling Castle is a 14th-century quadrangular castle in the village of Cooling, Kent on the Hoo Peninsula about 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Rochester. It was built in the 1380s by the Cobham family, the local lords of the manor, to guard the area against French raids into the Thames Estuary. The castle has an unusual layout, comprising two walled wards of unequal size next to each other, surrounded by moats and ditches. It was the earliest English castle designed for the use of gunpowder weapons by its defenders.
Despite this distinction, the use of gunpowder weapons against the castle proved devastating. It was captured after only eight hours when Sir Thomas Wyatt besieged it in January 1554 during his unsuccessful rebellion against Queen Mary. His attack badly damaged the castle, and it was subsequently abandoned and allowed to fall into disrepair. A farmhouse and outbuildings were constructed among the ruins a century later. Today the farmhouse is the home of the musician Jools Holland, while the nearby barn is used as a wedding venue.
CoolingCastle is a 14th-century quadrangular castle in the village of Cooling, Kent on the Hoo Peninsula about 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Rochester. It...
had obtained "royal recognition, acknowledgement and compliment." At CoolingCastle in Kent, a brass plaque on the outer gatehouse, an engraved charter...
Maxstoke Castle in Warwickshire, Wingfield Castle in Suffolk and, in particular CoolingCastle in Kent. These castles are set in moats with roughly rectangular...
TV series The Prisoner. He also owns a manor house near the medieval CoolingCastle in Kent. He appeared on the cover of Railway Modeller magazine in January...
a daughter of Thomas Brooke, 8th Baron Cobham, of Cobham Hall and CoolingCastle both in Kent, by his wife, Dorothy Heydon, a daughter of Sir Henry Heydon...
his religious beliefs. When Oldcastle fled from Windsor Castle to his own castle at Cooling, Henry at last consented to a prosecution. Oldcastle refused...
musician and the host of Later... with Jools Holland, lives in the CoolingCastle on the Hoo Peninsula. River Medway, a contestant on RuPaul's Drag Race...
A quadrangular castle or courtyard castle is a type of castle characterised by ranges of buildings which are integral with the curtain walls, enclosing...
son and heir by his father's first wife. He built nearby CoolingCastle on his estate at Cooling, Kent, acquired by his ancestors in the mid-13th century...
born in Greenwich Musician Jools Holland, lives in Greenwich and at CoolingCastle, Kent Jazz and blues guitarist Billy Jenkins ran Wood Wharf rehearsal...
1502). c. 1380 – Construction of Kuressaare Castle in modern-day Estonia started. 1380–1385 – CoolingCastle on the Thames Estuary of England. 1380–1392...
Baron Cobham (died 1558), lord of the Manor of Cobham, Kent and of CoolingCastle, Kent, and a brother of William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham (1527–1597)...
630 kg/s of steam at 103.4 bar and 566 °C. Station cooling was by river water and four cooling towers. Castle Donington was one of the CEGB's twenty steam power...
Oldcastle to appear in the Leeds Castle on 11 September 1413, but Oldcastle ignored the call and retreated to CoolingCastle, his keep. Arundel immediately...
defeated the Duke of Norfolk and seized six cannon. Wyatt then marched on CoolingCastle. The rebellion fizzled out, and Wyatt was executed, along with the captain...
July 16, 2023. Bolding, Jonathan (July 3, 2023). "Build and defend a coolcastle, block by block, in the Cataclismo demo". PC Gamer. Retrieved April 21...
predeceased him. "BRAYBROOKE, Sir Reynold (C.1356-1405), of Coolingcastle and Cobham, Kent and Castle Ashby and Chadstone, Northants. | History of Parliament...
Following the $12 million renovation, the castle reopened on June 28, 2019, complete with a geothermal heating and cooling system that was installed by the Central...
Brooke, 9th Baron Cobham (1497–1558), of Cobham Hall and of nearby CoolingCastle, whose possession was secured by act of Parliament, the Cobham College...
Windsor Castle is a royal residence at Windsor in the English county of Berkshire. It is strongly associated with the English and succeeding British royal...
uncertain, but comparison with similar, dated, examples, such as those at CoolingCastle in Kent, suggests a construction period in the 14th century. They cannot...
Carboniferous period. The Castle Rock is the remains of a volcanic pipe, which cut through the surrounding sedimentary rock before cooling to form very hard dolerite...
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