The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 944 KING STREET (South East Side)
No 43 TR 1458 SE 2/527
II GV
2. Late C18. 3 storeys red brick. Stone coping. 2 sashes set in moulded wooden architraves with glazing bars intact. Altered shop front.
Nos 34 to 43 (consec) form a group.
Listing NGR: TR1496358090

Imported from the Canterbury UAD: Formerly an inn called Eight Bells.
Prior to 1819 meetings of Lodge 24 had been held here. In 1859 police listed 3 prostitutes found using the inn.

Lists and directories name the following as innkeepers.
1808-1818 Henry Smith
1831-1846 Michael Elen (addres given as 35 King Street)
1915 R Barber

1922 the inn closed

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

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