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Monument details

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1833 to 1866

Monument Types

• SITE (Post Medieval - 1833 AD to 1866 AD)

Associated Finds

• POT (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon to Medieval - 1001 AD to 1200 AD)
• SLAG (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon to Medieval - 1001 AD to 1200 AD)
• UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon to Medieval - 1001 AD to 1200 AD)
• ASH (Medieval - 1101 AD to 1200 AD)
• SLAG (Medieval - 1101 AD to 1200 AD)
• UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Medieval - 1101 AD to 1200 AD)
• UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Medieval - 1101 AD to 1200 AD)

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 944 IVY LANE (South Side)
No 58 (Two Sawyers Public House). No 59. TR 1557 NW 5/5l9
II GV
2. Mid C19. 2 storeys red brick. No 58 is painted. Tiled roof. 2 sashes with some glazing bars intact. Central round-headed doorcase. No 58 has had a shopfront inserted. No 59 has a shopfront with cornice and reeded pilasters. Grade II for group value.
Nos 40A to 45 (consec), No 51, No 51A, Nos 53 to 61 (consec) and No 63 form a group.
Listing NGR: TR1532457610

The Canterbury UAD states that this is a Rigden/Fremlin/Whitbread inn.

This was a licensed house in 1784 with Mr Goodban as innkeeper and in 1803 William Pilsher paid to the brewer:
Rent £13. 0. 0.
Land tax 17. 0.
The Kentish Gazette reported on 17th September 1844:

'To let. A most desirable Public House with Pleasure gardens, ground etc. Rent £19. 19. 0 per annum. Apply Mr Pebardy, Two Sawyers, Ivy Lane, Canterbury'.

Mr Enderby's papers mention 10 named inns in Ivy Lane throughout the last 300 years. (1-2)

Pits at the rear of the building are thought to contain iron slag potentially dating from the Anglo-Saxon/medieval periods. These features/finds were highlighted by the desk based assessment of a nearby property. (3)

<1> Wilmot, E., 1988, Inns of Canterbury (Monograph). SKE29737.

<2> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<3> Canterbury Archaeological Trust Ltd., 2019, Land at Girne American University, Ivy Lane, Canterbury, Kent: Desk Based Assessment (Unpublished document). SKE55667.

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