Although there is no evidence that it was Sir John Boys House that inspired Dickens to pen those lines.
There are many houses in Canterbury with projecting upper floors, and that description would fit any of those.
Nevertheless, the house continued to be called Sir John Boys House.
The inscription above the door was added when the building became a bookshop.
Over the years the lean intensified and the chimney collapsed in 1988.
The house would have followed had the City Council and Canterbury Archaeological Trust not intervened.
The building is now supported internally by a steel frame, which prevents it from further movement.
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The door frame as it appears today.
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The house from the side.
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Sources:Britain Express/www.machadoink.com/www.canterbury-archaeology.org.uk/travellingspouse.blogspot.in/The Literary Guide & Companion to Southern England
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