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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 15 NW 787 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | 40 BURGATE |
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Summary
Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1367 to 1866
Formerly the Black Boy Inn, currently a shop.
| Grid Reference: | TR 1499 5782 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR15NW |
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| Parish: | CANTERBURY, CANTERBURY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- INN (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1367 AD? to 1866 AD?)
| Protected Status: | Listed Building (II*) 1251875: 40 BURGATE |
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Full description
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 944 BURGATE (South West Side)
No 40 TR 1557 NW 5/26 3.12.49. TR 1457 NE 4/26
II GV
2. Late C14. Part of group comprising Nos 40-44. 3 storeys. Second floor plastered, first floor painted brick. 1 3-light C18 sash with glazing bars intact. Mid C19 shopfront. Rear elevation has 2 C18 sashes and a narrow plain C18 doorcase.
Nos 38 to 44 (consec) and Nos 1 to 9 (consec) Butchery Lane together with Nos 1 to 8A (consec) and Nos 10 to 16 Mercery Lane form a group.
Listing NGR: TR1499657817 (1)
Located in the very corner of the Butter Market, 40 Burgate, with a back entrance in Butchery Lane where coaches could transport people and luggage. This rear courtyard is till there.
The licensing List of 1846 lists the innkeeper as Thos. Harris, three years later the innkeeper was Ann Harris his widow.
The Black boy is mentioned as early as 1663 where it appears in the billeting List for 4 soldiers and in 1667 in the Carpenters' Coy.
The inn closed in 1908. Now a shop. (2)
In 2013 the ground floor and basement of the building was the subect of a historic building survey in advance of conversion to a wine bar. The survey concluded that the building formed part of the larger complex of 41-44 Burgate. The building consists of two or three ranges, now consolidated as one. The earliest forms the southern end of the medieval range along Burgate. A second range that occupies most of the property is of probable 15/16th century date. The whole suffered from much later remodelling. (3)
Canterbury Archaeological Trust Ltd, 2013, 40 BURGATE AND 5 BUTCHERY LANE, CANTERBURY, KENT, HISTORIC BUILDING IMPACT ASSESSMENT / HERITAGE STATEMENT (Unpublished document). SKE52382.
<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
<2> Wilmot, E., 1992, Eighty Lost Inns of Canterbury (Monograph). SKE29747.
Sources and further reading
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| Source description | | --- | Unpublished document: Canterbury Archaeological Trust Ltd. 2013. 40 BURGATE AND 5 BUTCHERY LANE, CANTERBURY, KENT, HISTORIC BUILDING IMPACT ASSESSMENT / HERITAGE STATEMENT. |
| <1> | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. |
| <2> | Monograph: Wilmot, E.. 1992. Eighty Lost Inns of Canterbury. |
