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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 15 NW 777 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | 43 KING STREET |
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Summary
Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1767 to 1799
| Grid Reference: | TR 1496 5809 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR15NW |
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| Parish: | CANTERBURY, CANTERBURY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- SITE (Post Medieval - 1767 AD to 1799 AD)
| Protected Status: | Listed Building (II) 1240915: 43 KING STREET |
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Full description
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 944 KING STREET (South East Side)
No 43 TR 1458 SE 2/527
II GV
2. Late C18. 3 storeys red brick. Stone coping. 2 sashes set in moulded wooden architraves with glazing bars intact. Altered shop front.
Nos 34 to 43 (consec) form a group.
Listing NGR: TR1496358090
Imported from the Canterbury UAD: Formerly an inn called Eight Bells.
Prior to 1819 meetings of Lodge 24 had been held here. In 1859 police listed 3 prostitutes found using the inn.
Lists and directories name the following as innkeepers.
1808-1818 Henry Smith
1831-1846 Michael Elen (addres given as 35 King Street)
1915 R Barber
1922 the inn closed
English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
Wilmot, E., 1992, Eighty Lost Inns of Canterbury (Monograph). SKE29747.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | --- | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. |
| --- | Monograph: Wilmot, E.. 1992. Eighty Lost Inns of Canterbury. |
