Cricket in Kent: where it began?

Today's walk took me to the delightful suburb (they would probably rather I called it a village) of St Stephen's, to the northwest of the city centre, on the way to the University of Kent high on its hill.

There is a church with a row of terraced almshouses. The end house, which was where the Warden lived (shades of Trollope), has been turned into a pub called Ye Olde Beverlie Inn. Attached to it is a plaque:

So this was the first clubhouse for what became the Kent County Cricket Club.

Here is a photograph of the Inn (lurking behind the nearest traffic light) and the almshouse to the right, taken from the delightful if tiny St Stephen's Green.

If you walk from the inn across the green you reach the Beverley Meadow, still large enough to play cricket on. Just before the meadow is a fantastic old half-timbered house: