The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 944 NORTH LANE (North West Side)
3.5.67. NO 7 - No 7A 3.5.67. No 8 TR 1458 SE 2/127
II GV
2. 2 houses joined by an arohway. C18 stuccoed facade to earlier timber-framed houses. 2 storeys and attic. 2 windows to No 7, 4 windows to No 8, with one window over the archway. 3 dormers each. Eaves cornice, The ceiling beams span the carriageway between the houses, but apart from this there are no signs of the timbering. Sash windows with glazing bars intact. No 7 has a central doorcase with a round-headed door and 3 steps. No 8 has a recessed doorcase and. 2 stone steps and an early C19 shop front and ground floor 3 light sash.
Nos 1, 2 & Nos 4 to 15 (consec) form a group.
Listing NGR: TR1461458180

The Canterbury UAD states that The Steam Packet, according to police reports, was quite a rough and disorderly inn during the 19th century and cases were reported in the local press of drunken behaviour.
In 1856 a police inspector reported that a drunken and disorderly company was on the premises at 2am on the Sabbath. The licensee in 1837 was Charles Allen; in 1846 William Bigg and in 1848 William Pitt. The Steam packet closed as an inn in 1914. It is now a guest house.

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

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