Shakespeare Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1967. Inn. 5 related planning applications.
Shakespeare Inn
- WRENN ID
- vacant-chapel-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1967
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- Shakespeare Inn, 5, Butchery Lane, CT1 2JR
- OS grid reference
- TR 150 578
- Coordinates
- 51.27875, 1.08146
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Shakespeare Inn, located at 5 Butchery Lane, is a building that dates from the medieval period and later. It is two storeys high and constructed of painted brick, featuring a Victorian gable. The front has one sash window with intact glazing bars set in a moulded architrave, along with a modern shopfront. The rear elevation is three storeys tall and tile-hung, with two sash windows that have verticals only. The ground floor includes one canted bay window and one double-hung sash window. The Shakespeare Inn is part of a group of buildings that includes Nos 1 to 9 and Nos 38 to 44 Burgate, as well as Nos 1 to 8A and Nos 10 to 16 Mercery Lane.
Local climate
Shakespeare Inn sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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