Exploring Kent's Past

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Monument details

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1800 to 1832

Monument Types

• SITE (Post Medieval - 1800 AD to 1832 AD)

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 944 ORCHARD STREET (South East Side)
Nos 9 and 10 Nos 11 and 12 (Black Horse Inn) Nos 13 to 17 (consec) TR 1458 SW 1/632
II GV
2. An early C19 terrace. 2 storeys buff brick. Slate roofs with dormers. Parapets with stone coping. Rainwater heads, 1 sash to each with glazing bars intact. Round-headed doorcases having fanlights and 6 panelled doors. Nos 11 and 12 have been altered by being refaced in red brick. Modillion cornice and cemented pub front.
Nos 1B to 25 (consec) form a group.
Listing NGR: TR1427758152

The Canterbury UAD states that this was a Geo. Beer & Rigden/Fremlins/Whitbread inn.

This inn was first licensed in 1837 to James Bassett and in 1846 to Ann Bassett (Spinster).

The Black Horse was listed in Bagshaw's Directory in 1847 and was purchased by Rigdens in 1854 for £300.

Until the early 1930s the Black Horse was only No. 12 Orchard Street and during that time No. 11 was added to make a larger inn and the front of the inn was altered. The frontage of the Black Horse certainly included No. 11 and 12 Orchard Street by 1939. Further alterations have recently been made to the interior of the inn. Mr Stan Tapsell whose father was innkeeper for a time after 1945 remembers the inn when it was only half its present size.

The records indicate that there has only ever been one inn in Orchard Street.

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

Wilmot, E., 1988, Inns of Canterbury (Monograph). SKE29737.

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