Exploring Kent's Past

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Monument details

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1700 to 1832

Monument Types

• INN (Post Medieval - 1692 AD? to 1700 AD)
• SITE (Post Medieval - 1700 AD to 1832 AD)
• INN (Post Medieval to Modern - 1845 AD to 1903 AD)

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 944 IVY LANE (South Side)
Nos 51 and 5lA TR 1557 NW 5/5l7
II GV
2. C18. 2 storeys stuccoed. Half-hipped tiled roof with 2 hipped dormers. 4 sashes in all with glazing bars intact. No 51 has a simple doorcase. No 52 has a left side doorcase with half-hood on moulded console brackets and early C19 shopfront.
Nos 40A to 45 (consec), No 51, No 51A, Nos 53 to 61 (consec) and NO 63 form a group.
Listing NGR: TR1536657601

The Canterbury UAD stated that The Navy arms was one of about 10 inns on Ivy Lane during the 19th century. From 1845 to 1849 the licence named John Ellis as the innkeeper and in 1851 the licence was transferred from J Ellis to Henry J Roberts.

Mrs Ellen Russell was innkeeper from 1865/67 and John Wilson from 1882/89. It was a large inn. Thomas Ellis was landlord in 1900. Navy Arms closed as an inn in 1903. In 1992 the building, still no 51, is partly occupied by Menzair.

The previous inn on the site was the SHIP. In 1780 a city rent book reffered to, "Formally the SIGN OF THE SHIP" (closed around 1700). That was on the 1692 Licence List of city inns (the Ebblewhite List) and in 1693 the Billeting List offered the Ship four soldiers.

English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

Wilmot, E., 1992, Eighty Lost Inns of Canterbury (Monograph). SKE29747.

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