The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 944 NORTHGATE (North West Side)
Nos 70 and 71 TR 1558 SW 3/288
II GV
2. C17 timber framed buildings refronted in C19. 2 storeys and attics stuccoed with 2 hipped weatherboarded gables having tiled roofs. No 71 has 2 3 light sashes and a C19 shop front with 4 pilasters embellished with a lion's head on the capital and panelled risers. No 70 has an overhang and a portion faced with fishscale tiles with sashes and a later C19 strop front.
Nos 60 to 71 (consec) form a group.
Listing NGR: TR1512058218

Description from record TR 15 NE 812:
By mid September 1941, probably as part of the strengthening of the Canterbury Fortress, a fortified house had been established in a building on the west side of Northgate with a clear line of fire down Broad Street. The building in question certainly survives, although it is not yet clear which one it was - most probably number 70, which is dead opposite. It was on the Inner Perimeter of the Canterbury Fortress, which here coincided with the west side of Northgate. There was a roadblock, on the said perimeter, immediately in front of this building.
Owner : Private
Publicly accessible : Unknown
How accessed for survey :
Tourism Potential :
Condition : unknown
Date of visit :

The Canterbury UAD states that No 71 Northgate was a Flint & Sons inn.

The Victoria was empty c. 1968 when inspected and has since been converted into several flats and the owner of the front ground floor flat has retained the bars as part of the kitchen - a pleasant act of conversation. It was a large inn and hotel, was listed in the Licensing list of 1692 as The Plume of Feathers, and the Billeting List of 1693 listed the inn for 8 soldiers.

In 1839 the innkeeper was James Curtis and in 1855 the inn was also acting as a Wine & Spirit outlet.

The building is probably listed.

The Victoria ceased trading and closed in 1966.

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

Canterbury Fortress headquarters, 01/01/41, War Diary Canterbury Fortress 1941 (Unpublished document). SKE15597.

Canterbury Fortress headquarters, 01/01/42, War Diary Canterbury Fortress 1942 (Unpublished document). SKE15598.

Wilmot, E., 1988, Inns of Canterbury (Monograph). SKE29737.