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Beautiful reconstruction of 16th c. Canterbury. The city has not recovered from its pre-plague 10k pop (now 3-5k), but England's pop. is growing rapidly and the city is still full of strong timber framed and brick infill homes, the old medieval city of open courtyards filling in. 
The large oddly shaped bldg. is the Cheker of Hope, an inn built in 1392 to house pilgrims: first floor had shops, then private rooms for wealthier pilgrims and the 3rd floor had a large dormitory that could house 100 pilgrims. The courtyard must have been an exciting spot to be!
The inn is mentioned in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, “The Tale of Beryn”. Today only parts of the ground floor (with the impressive stone arcade) and the basements remain, making up the corner of Mercery Lane and High Street.
Here is Mercery Lane today, not much has changed since the Tudor era.
