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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 15 NW 785 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | 22 AND 23 CASTLE STREET |
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Summary
Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1700 to 1979
| Parish: | CANTERBURY, CANTERBURY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- INN (Post Medieval to Modern - 1700 AD to 1972 AD (at some time))
- SITE (Post Medieval to Modern - 1700 AD to 1979 AD)
| Protected Status: | Listed Building (II) 1252091: 22 AND 23 CASTLE STREET |
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Full description
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
4/455 CASTLE 3TEEET (South East Side)
Nos 22 and 23
Part 2 of the entry should be amended to read:
House pair, now offices. Early C18, stuccoed and altered in early-mid C19. Stuccoed with plat bands over ground and first floors and rusticated quoins. Coped parapet to plain tiled roof with 2 gabled dormers. 2 storeys. Regular 2 window front, sashes. Entrances at extreme left and right with cornice-hoods on console brackets over. Apart from the facade, the lobby and the party wall to Nos 19-21 (consec), which contains some timber-framing with curved braces probably of C16 date, the bullding has been largely reconstructed to rear, in the later 1970s.
1. 944 CASTLE STREET (South East Side)
Nos 22 and 23 TR 1457 NE 4/455
II GV
2. Early C18. 2 storeys stuccoed. Old tiled roof with 2 hipped dormers. Long and short quoins. Stringcourses. Glazing bars intact to 2 sashes on first floor only. Doorcases have cornices and console brackets.
Nos 1 to 9 (consec) and Nos 12 to 24 (consec) form a group.
Listing NGR: TR1467757557
Imported from the Canterbury UAD:
There were many inns in castle street. This inn is located on the corner of Castle Street and St Mary's Street. It was first mentioned in licence records in 1792, closing in 1792 with James Henry Robins as innkeeper. Now used as offices.
Licensing lists and directories tell of past innkeepers;
1792 Edward Minter
1795 William Kite
1798 John Lords
1799 Ann Lords (widow)
1819 James Sharpe
1826 James Sharpe still there when the lease expired from St Mildreds Church.
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. |
