In the summer of 1955 an extension was added to the Conservative Club, which lay to the north west of St Margaret's Street and this necessitated the digging of a new soakaway in the garden. A Roman building was revealed; a tessellated floor was found c. 2.13m below the surface and contemporary with it was a NE to SW wall of masonry. A further archaeological trench was dug slightly to the NE of the soakaway and this uncovered more of the wall together with its intersection with a wall at right angles. The building remained long in occupation and thought there was evidence that a clay wall had been demolished before the masonry wall had been built, it was evidently on the same line and may have stood on the same footings. Only in the fourth century did robbing occur, after which a further building occupied the site possibly on a different plan.

An interesting feature of the site is the evidence it yielded for the long circulaion of late third-century coins; numbers of them appeared in contexts within the building dating to after the middle of the fourth century where they cannot have been residual in the archaeological sense of that term.

Ordnance Survey, 1873, 1st edition map of Canterbury 1873 (Map). SKE30447.

Blockley, K., Blockley, M., Blockley, P., Frere, S. and Stow, S., 1995, Excavations in the Marlowe Car Park and Surrounding Areas. Part 1: The Excavated Sites (Monograph). SKE29969.