The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 944 NORTH LANE (North West Side)
No 20 TR 1458 SE 2/581
II
2. Early C19 facade. 2 storeys red brick. Stone coping, 3 recessed panels above 1st floor. 2 sashes with glazing bars intact and 1 blank. Plinth. 1 right side round-headed doorcase. Altered windows on the ground floor.
Listing NGR: TR1465758224

The Canterbury UAD states that this inn was listed in the 1692 Ebblewhite List of Canterbury inns but at that time it was called The Angel. In 1847 the directory listed Susan Carey as innkeeper and in 1861 it was James Nicholls. He was still there in 1865. The inn was sometimes called King William IV.

The first licence issued to an inn called William IV in North lane was probaly in 1834 following the death in 1830 of George IV and the accession of William IV.

Joseph Brett was licence holder in 1882; Mr A Scoones in 1888 and George Pilbeam in 1897/98/1900. The Inn closed in 1918.

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