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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 15 NE 662 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | 1 ST MARTIN'S HILL |
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Summary
Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1767 to 1832
| Grid Reference: | TR 1580 5769 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR15NE |
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| Parish: | CANTERBURY, CANTERBURY, KENT |
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Monument Types
| Protected Status: | Listed Building (II) 1242170: 1 ST MARTIN'S HILL |
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Full description
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 944 ST MARTIN'S HILL
No 1 TR 1557 NE 6/162
II GV
2. Late C18 or early C19. L-shaped. 2 storeys painted brick. Hipped tiled roof. 3 sashes with glazing bars intact. 1 triple sash on side. Part stringcourse. C18 doorcase with pediment, triglyph frieze, fluted pilasters, rectangular fanlight and modern door.
Nos 1 to 13 (odd) form a group.
Listing NGR: TR1580757696
The Canterbury UAD states that on the site of 1 St Martin's Hill there was an inn known as The Ship.
The Ship was included in the List of Licensed premises in the 1692 List. In 1693 the Billeting List gave the inn six soldiers . Mr Enderby quotes a City Rent Book as early as 1597 where the Corporate Freehold property on this site was leased for 257 years - this expired in 1854.
In 1792 the innkeeper William Cobb, two years later it was Francis Cobb. From Licencing Lists some of the other inkeepers were: 1792/95/96 William Cobb; 1799 John Keeler; 1888/9 J. Martin & J. Wright.
From the Cathedral Archives there is an indenture dated 14th January 1597 made between the Mayor and Commonalty of the City of Canterbury on the one part and Mark Berry one of the Aldermen of the same City on the other part ...to hold the said Mark Berry, his exors and assigns from the feast of St. Michael the Archangel last past into the end term of 257 years, at the yearly rent of 4d. The seal of the Mayor affixed.
15th July 1854. Then in the occupation of Richard Clark ...'Lying in the Parish of St. Martin, near and without the walls of the said City and Borough of Canterbury ...'. Power to distrain if yearly rent of 4d be unpaid for 14 days. Calloway & Furley, Canterbury.
A report in the Kentish Observer dated 8th February 1923 headed: 'An Ancient inn to be closed'. Counsel produced a lease for The Ship granted in 1583 and stated that the House could be traced back for 400 years. The Ship closed in 1924 and the large building now appears to be empty.
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
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| Source description | | --- | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. |
| --- | Monograph: Wilmot, E.. 1992. Eighty Lost Inns of Canterbury. |
