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

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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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