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Page Updated:- Thursday, 16 October, 2025.
PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest ????

 Chestfield Barn

Open 2024+

101 Chestfield Road

Chestfield

Whitstable

01227 793086

https://www.thechestfieldbarn.co.uk/

https://whatpub.com/chestfield-barn

Chestfield Barn 1920

Above postcard, 1920, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.
Chestfield Barn 1932

Above postcard, 1932, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.
Chestfield Barn 1932

Above postcard, circa 1932, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. Another of the inter-war publicity cards produced to promote the tea rooms, which lay close to the (then recently-opened) A299 Thanet Way.
Chestfield Barn 1933

Above postcard, circa 1933, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.
Chestfield Barn inside 1933

Above postcard, circa 1933, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. Aview of the barn's interior, when it operated as more of a tea room than a pub.
Chestfield Barn 1934

Above postcard, circa 1934, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. Barn. With the sign claiming that Chestfield Barn dates from 1340. The same year as the Battle of Sluys (100 Years' War) which saw the French fleet utterly annihilated.

Above postcard, circa 1934, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.
Chestfield Barn 1955

Above postcard, circa 1955, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.
Chestfiels-Barn-2011-Chestfield

Above photo 2011 by Oast House Archives Creative Commons Licence.
Chestfield Barn 2009

Above photo 2009 by David Anstiss Creative Commons Licence.
Chestfield Barn sign 2011Chestfield Barn sign 2020

Above sign left 2011. Sign right, 2020, kindly taken and sent by Roger Pester.

 

Serving as a Shepherd Neame house the building is mentioned in the Doomsday Book of 1086 and can be traced back to 1084 as being part of the Chestfield Manor.

The pub was converted into a pub/restaurant the mid-1980s by Johnnie Kray, whose sons managed the business.

The Barn features a striking thatched roof,  with exposed beams, flagstones and original timbers from the Blean Forest. Inside, the restaurant area shows oak beams and can accommodate up to 60 people. Some of the beams are very low indeed. A log fire is usually lit in the winter.

Outside, there is an attractive garden with a huge York stone table and Koi carp pond.

Last used as tea rooms, Shepherd Neame are now serving beers from this Grade II listed building. It gained its listing on 20 May 1977.
 

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