The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 944 ORANGE STREET (North West Side)
No 15 (Oddfellows Hall) TR 1457 NE 4/626
II GV
2. Outwardly dates from 1876, but probably refaced. 2 storeys stuccoed, 2 restored hipped dormers. Parapet. Wide bracket cornice. 5 sashes with verticals only. Ground floor rusticated and has 2 pilasters. Windows and doors are altered.
Nos 9, lO, Nos 13 to 17 (consec) and Nos 19, 19A and 20 form a group.
Listing NGR: TR1492157994

The Canterbury UAD mentions that another chapter of our history was remembered through the name of a Canterbury inn. James II was unpopular and a group of nobles invited his daughter, Mary, who was married to William Prince of Orange, to govern jointly in England. William and Mary arrived in England in 1689. The Prince of Orange inn was included in the 1692 List of Canterbury licensed houses. It was then called The Kings Head, 12 Orange Street.

In the following year the Billeting List gave the inn 8 soliders. In 1792 the innkeeper was Thomas Goodban and between 1803-1818 it was John Small. In 1792 the Kentish Post, on 16th September, advertised: "To be sold, public house by the sign of Prince of Orange, a good house and stables, large yard with a back way to the stablesetc." Again in 1741 the Kentish Post advertised, "Prince of Orange, alehouse to be let".

In 1862 the Licence was transferred from Charles Spanter to Charles Lepine. In 1847 Gibbob Ladd had been landlord. A directory lists the Odd Fellows on the site, in 1888 and a writer wrote at that time, 'The Prince of Orange, now the Odd Fellows Hall...."

By 1889 the directory was listing the inn as, No 15 Oddfellows Hall: Resident Manager Charles Mensor. The local newspaper also wrote: 'Twin gables now form part of the frontage of Odd Fellows Hall'. A few years earlier in 1882 the Residenet manager had been John Ray.

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

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