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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 15 NW 1213 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | TAVERN COTTAGE |
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Summary
Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1500 to 1599
| Grid Reference: | TR 1454 5808 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR15NW |
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| Parish: | CANTERBURY, CANTERBURY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- SITE (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1500 AD to 1599 AD)
| Protected Status: | Listed Building (II) 1242874: TAVERN COTTAGE |
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Full description
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 944 WESTGATE GROVE (North Side)
No 8 (Tavern Cottage ) (Formerly listed as No 5) TR 1458 SE 2/124 3.12.49.
II GV
2. Originally part of the old Cock Inn. A C16 timber framed building. 3 storeys plastered. Tiled roof and gable front. Overhang. 2nd floor has a restored casement window, 1st floor has a 3 light mullioned and transomed bay and the ground floor has a modern door.
Nos 2 to 14 (even) form a group.
Listing NGR: TR1454258090
Nos 2,4,6,8 and 10 Westgate Grove, originally parts of the Cock Inn [TR 14545808 sited from HHR map]. Grade II. No 2 16thc timber-framed, refaced early 19thc. Nos 4 and 6 16thc timber-framed, now plastered over. No 8 16thc timber-framed. No 10 16thc timber-framed. No 2 Westgate Grove. 19th century front to earlier timber-framed building. Nos 4 and 6 Westgate Grove. 16th century timber-framed building. No 8 Westgate Grove. Medieval timber-framed building, altered in the 17th century. No 10 Westgate Grove. Medieval timber-framed building, altered in the 17th century.
The Canterbury UAD states that the builiding is mentioned on the 1692 Licensing List and the billieting list awarded the inn 10 soldiers.
Licensing lists and directories name the following as innkeeprs;
1838 William Small (address given as Cock Lane)
1840 William Small
1847 William Small (adress given as Westgate Court and 'Cock without Westgate')
Not known when it closed but is now private residence, once home to Alderman James. (1)
English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
<1> 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. |
| <1> | Monograph: Wilmot, E.. 1992. Eighty Lost Inns of Canterbury. |
