The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 944 NORTH LANE (North West Side)
No 4 (The Falstaff Tap) TR 1458 SE 2/343
II GV
2. C18. 2 storeys painted brick. Old tiled roof hipped at one end. Rounded corner. 3 sashes with glazing bars intact. The grand floor has 2 shopfronts and 2 doorcases, one of which is round-headed.
Nos 1, 2 & Nos 4 to 15 (consec) form a group.
Listing NGR: TR1458358156

TheCanterbury UAD states that this inn was previously owned by Whitbread House.

The date given by the brewers for the Falstaff Tap was about 1700. It was obviously associated with The Falstaff Inn/Hotel. It was mentioned in a Kent Directory in 1838 and in 1854 James Strutt was convicted for being open before hours.

A tap-room was a room where beer was served from the tap or cask; a tapster was a barman or one who draws liquor. A tap inn was usually a small inn associated with a much larger one of the same name, where the coach drivers or servants were accommodated.

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

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