Exploring Kent's Past

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Monument details

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1700 to 1732

Monument Types

• SITE (Post Medieval - 1700 AD to 1732 AD)
• INN (Post Medieval - 1840 AD to 1865 AD?)

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 944 BEST LANE (South East Side)
TR 1457 NE 4/279 Nos 22 and 23 3.5.67.
II GV
2. An early C18 pair. 3 storeys painted brick. Parapet with stone coping. Dropped stone bracket cornice, Rainwater head. Second floor has 4 casements. First floor has 5 sashes (1 is 3 light) some with glazing bars intact. 2 stringcourses, one being a flint band, Plinth. Left side doorcase has a weatherhood and brackets, rectangular fanlight and later door. 2 stone steps. Right side doorcase has a elliptical fanlight wooden architrave and 3 stone steps, Central cambered passageway with brick keystone. Side elevation has 1 sash and 1 blank.
Nos 16A to 20 (consec), Nos 22 and 23 form a group.
Listing NGR: TR1488057978

Imported from the Canterbury UAD.
No 23 appeared to have been a short lived inn called the Elephant and Castle at the Orange Street corner of Best Lane.
Established in 1840, the first mentioned innkeeper was Stephen Morrell 1844-1846.
There appears to be no record after 1865.

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

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

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