From OED
ken, n.2 Also 6 kene.
[Vagabonds' slang.]
A house; esp. a house where thieves, beggars, or disreputable characters meet or lodge. Freq. with qualifying words, as bousing-, dancing-, smuggling-, stalling-, touting-ken (q.v.). Phr. to burn the ken (see quot. 1725).
1567 Harman Caveat (1869) 83 A ken, a house.
Ibid. 85 Tower ye [= look you], yander is the kene.
1622 Fletcher Beggars' Bush v. i, Surprising a boore's ken for grunting cheates.
1641 Brome Joviall Crew ii. Wks. 1873 III. 388 Bowse a health to the Gentry Cofe of the Ken.
1725 New Cant. Dict., Burnt the Ken, when Strollers leave the Ale_house, without paying their Quarters.
1800 Sporting Mag. XVI. 26 Called at a ken in the way home.
1851 Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 351 Up she goes to any likely ken,_and commences begging.
1860 Dixon Pers. Hist. Ld. Bacon v. _15 These_skulk about the kens of Newgate Street.
Also exists in Chambers