Description from record TR 15 NW 389:
No 16 St Dunstan's Street [TR 14525815 sited from OS 1/1250 1971]. Grade II. 18th century front to older building. (1) No 16 St Dunstan's Street. Timber framed building, probably two unit 16th century. (2)

The Canterbury UAD states that:
The Kent Arms was first recorded as a licensed house in 1862. (3)

Directories name the folloiwng as innkeepers;
1862 Henry Benjamin
1865/67 Miss Julia Martin
1889 Mr J A Brock
1900 Mr C W Birch

The inn closed in 1906 (3)

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 944 ST DUNSTAN'S STREET (North East Side)
No 16 TR 1458 SE 2/308
II GV
2. C18 front to older building. 2 storeys the 1st floor now rendered. Tiled roof with 1 hipped dormer and coping. 3 light canted Day on tile 1st floor with restored glazing. Ground floor has later shopfront. The rear elevation is part weatherboarded with a gable and 1 casement. Grade II for group value.
Nos 5 to 16 (consec) form a group.
Listing NGR: TR1452658164 (4)

<1> DOE (HHR) City of Canterbury Kent Sept 1973 211 (OS Card Reference). SKE40044.

<2> Hist Builds Survey Cant City Council/ RCHME 57035 2 of 29 (OS Card Reference). SKE43832.

<3> Wilmot, E., 1992, Eighty Lost Inns of Canterbury (Monograph). SKE29747.

<4> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.