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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 15 NW 1063 |
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| Type of record: | Building |
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| Name: | NO. 1 CROSS STREET |
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Summary
NO. 1 CROSS STREET: historic building. Formerly The Builders Arms Inn
| Parish: | CANTERBURY, CANTERBURY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- INN (Unknown to Post Medieval)
Full description
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NOS. 1 - 9 CONSECUTIVELY FORM A GROUP. EARLY 19C. 2 STOREYS. BUFF BRICK. SLATE ROOF. 2 SASHES. 1 BLANK. GROUND FLOOR HAS 4 PILASTERS.
Located on the corner of Cross Street and Church Street. The Inn was purchased by Rigden the Brewers in 1844, the innkeeper of the time (1845-49) was John Vincent. In 1859 the license was tranferred from Charles Igglesden to John Curtis. Two months later it transferred again between John Curtis and Richard Goodsell.
Other Innkeepers were;
1867 John Brown
1888 William Fairbrass
In 1925 a directory mentions this was a Charles Stace Mission Room.
The Inn closed in 1937, now a private residence. (1)
<1> Wilmot, E., 1992, Eighty Lost Inns of Canterbury (Monograph). SKE29747.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Monograph: Wilmot, E.. 1992. Eighty Lost Inns of Canterbury. |
