Medieval houses constructed in the 13th and 14th century, continuing to be modified into the 16th century. Medieval brickearth quarrying (TR 15 NW 2610) took place adjacent to the site of the houses. This information was recovered from background material for the desk-based assessment of a nearby site. (1)

The building work at the site began during the 13th-14th centuries andinitially copmrised the cutting of two shallow terraces perpendicular to the street frontage. The earlier pit features were consolidated using fragments of of gravel and burnt daub. This was followed by the construction of a large timber framed building extending 32+m from the street frontage. Elements of the structure which survived include the chalk wall footings, a stone 'H' shaped fireplace, and clay and mortar floors, alongside a chalk and stone lined cess tank at the rear of the house. Another house structure was represented by a peg-tile hearth and clay floors, alongside several large (industrial?) pits and masonry-lined wells - suggesting as possible external courtyard area. One of the hearth features and the cess tank was modified and repaired using Tudor bricks during the early post-medieval period.
Further pits were dug towards the rear of the site and were thought to have been used for the disposal of domestic refuse. Further refuse pits were present from the early post-medieval period, containing late 16th century material includign bellarmine stoneware jugs.
A boundary ditch 2+m deep and parallel with St Dunstan's Street was also present at the site. This ditch is thought to follow an old watercourse and possibly functions as a boundary ditch for the medieval properties.
During the post-medieval period the area is thought to have bene terraced again, with evidence for refuse pits and a cellar. The boundary ditch appears to have been backfilled and a wall constructed over the top, thought to comprise the back wall of a substantial brick building. Evidence for this building include the SE and NW walls and associated metalled surfaces. A synagogue was also constructed at the site in 1763, which was expropriated in the Victorian period in order to create the approach to the new railway station (this information was retrieved from the original report, which is not currently held by Kent County Council HER).

<1> Canterbury Archaeological Trust Ltd, 2016, Station Road West Car Park, Canterbury, Kent Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment Report (Unpublished document). SKE52686.