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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 15 NE 1141 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | The Little Rose. 27 King Street/corner of Staplegate |
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Summary
The Little Rose inn is difficult to locate. It is around the area of the public toilets between Knotts Lane and The Borough.
| Grid Reference: | TR 1501 5814 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR15NE |
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| Parish: | CANTERBURY, CANTERBURY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- INN (Post Medieval to Modern - 1789 AD? to 1939 AD)
Full description
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This inn is again difficult to locate. It is around the area of the public toilets between knotts lane and The Borough.
In 1789 THE LITTLE ROSE was purchased by Rigden (the brewers) for £836.
The rent book of the inn and directory entries shows the following innkeepers;
1802 William Morrison
1808 Susanah Arnold
1825 Thomas Solly
1846/48 William Stevens
1888 Mr TW Johnson
1895 Thomas H Goodhew
1900 Robert Pattison
The Little Rose was sold in 1928 to the trustees of the turnpike road that ran from Canterbury to Ramsgate. The inn closed in 1939.
Wilmot, E., 1992, Eighty Lost Inns of Canterbury (Monograph). SKE29747.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | --- | Monograph: Wilmot, E.. 1992. Eighty Lost Inns of Canterbury. |
