The Snail Family Pub & Restaurant at Stone Street

The Snail is a beautiful, Kentish, part ragstone building, which probably started life as a farm building in the 1600's. Ragstone occurs in a geological formation known in the Hythe Beds of the Lower Greensand, a layer of limestone's running from Kent into Surrey.
By the mid 1840's it was being run as a 'beer house' known as The Rose and
Crown (a Whitbread's pub), which name prevailed until 1995. The Snail's
beautiful tranquil surroundings in Stone Street are matched by the sympathetic
exterior, in the form of a rural 16th century building.

In 1995 the original pub was purchased by The Slow Food Company, and the
name changed in line with the theme to 'The Snail at Stone Street'.