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Monument details

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1500 to 1949. Nos 1-3 St Peter's St

Monument Types

• HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1500 AD to 2050 AD)
• INN (Post Medieval - 1792 AD? to 1867 AD?)

Full description

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Description from record TR 15 NW 56:
Nos 1 to 3 (The Weavers) St Peter's St [TR 14785794-OS 1:2500 1957] Dated 1500. This was one of the workshops of the Huguenot weavers. Timber-framed house restored, the timbering renewed and the infilling is now of roughcast. 2 storeys and attic. 3 gables. 3 windows, 1st floor overhangs on the protruding ends of the floor joists on the street front. Modern shop fronts facing the street. The river elevation has 5 gables and 5 restored mullioned and transomed bays with leaded lights. The interior has a renewed king post and a restored staircase. Wrought iron fire grate dated 1641. (1) Additional bibliography. (2-3) The Weavers, 1-3 St Peters Street. Structurally it appears that there are two medieval buildings No 3 and Nos 1 and 2. Provisional work suggested it might be a hall. Described on plan as 15th century timber-framed buildings. (4-5) Nos 1-3 St Peter's Street. Much altered and extended 15th century Wealden house. Altered 16th-17th and 19th-20th century. (6)

Imported from the Canterbury UAD:
The Golden Lion was listed in one directory in the 19th century as being the third part of the Weavers [No 3 St Peter's Street], from Kings Bridge. For a short time the Golden Lion was known as the Red Lion.

Licensing Lists name the following as innkeepers;
1792 John Upton
1803 (directory used the address 3 St Peters Street)
1806 William Crouch
1838-1846 Edward Bigg

The inn was still trading in 1867, a definate closing date is not certain. (7)

Additional bibliography (8-9)

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 944 ST PETER'S STREET (North East Side)
Nos 1 to 3 (consec) (The Weavers) TR 1457 NE 4/69 3.12.49.
II GV
2. Dated 1500. This was one of the workshops of the Huguenot weavers. Timber-framed house restored, the timbering renewed and the infilling is now of roughcast. 2 storeys and attic. 3 gables. 3 windows, 1st floor overhangs on the protruding ends of the floor joists on the street front. Modern shop fronts facing the street. The river elevation has 5 gables and 5 restored mullioned and transomed bays with leaded lights. The interior has a renewed king post and a restored staircase. Wrought iron fire grate dated 1641.
Nos 1 to 10 (consec) form a group.
Listing NGR: TR1479657951 (10)

<1> DOE (HHR) City of Canterbury Kent Sept 1973 242 (OS Card Reference). SKE40065.

<2> BOE NE & E Kent 1983 253 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE38208.

<3> Ind Arch SE England 1978 31 (AJ Haselfoot) (OS Card Reference). SKE44270.

<4> CAT Ann Rep 8 1983-4 43 illus 44 CAT file No 35 (OS Card Reference). SKE38695.

<5> Arch Cant 101 1984 309-10 (J Bowen and T Tatton-Brown) (OS Card Reference). SKE34563.

<6> Hist Builds Survey Cant City Council/RCHME 57035 18 of 29 (OS Card Reference). SKE43879.

<7> Wilmot, E., 1992, Eighty Lost Inns of Canterbury (Monograph). SKE29747.

<8> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, DB1 (Digital archive). SKE31069.

<9> J. Bowen, 1984, "The Weavers" 1-3 St Peter's Street (Article in serial). SKE31068.

<10> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

Sources and further reading

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