The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 944 WINCHEAP (North Nest Side)
No 62 (Duke's Head Public House) TR 1457 SW 7/359
II GV
2. C18. 2 storeys stuccoed. Hipped tiled roof with 1 hipped dormer. 2 sashes with glazing bars intact on 1st floor, and stringcourse. Ground floor has 2 C19 canted bays.
Nos 42 to 64 (even) form a group.
Listing NGR: TR1437357244

The Canterbury UAD states that this inn previously belonged to Flint/Mackeson/Whitbread.

An 18th century inn, it was on the Licensing List in 1792 and the innkeeper was William. Barber. By 1795 John Saffrey had taken over. The Dukes Head was listed in Bagshaw's Directory in 1847. At this time the inn was owned by Flint & Co. A Land Tax had been paid to them by John Mathews, innkeeper, in 1826. His widow, Sarah Mathews, was also innkeeper for a while.

In 1987 the projecting beam from the roof that once held the inn sign still reaches out above the pavement like a gibbet. The Dukes Head Closed in 1972.

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

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