Kings Arms
KINGS ARMS, HEATH COMMON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135548
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Kings Arms
- Statutory Address:
- KINGS ARMS, HEATH COMMON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135548
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Kings Arms
- Statutory Address 1:
- KINGS ARMS, HEATH COMMON
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- KINGS ARMS, HEATH COMMON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Warmfield cum Heath
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 35645 19933
Details
SE 3519 and SE 3520 WARMFIELD-CUM-HEATH HEATH COMMON (south side)
6/79 Kings Arms 31.7.79
GV II
Pair of attached cottages and attached barn converted to public house. Cottages: rear c1690, front early C18 converted to public house c1841 when barn or coach- house was added to left. Hammer-dressed stone, brick to rear, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. Original cottages (now main part of public house): three 1st-floor windows. Quoins. 3 bays of 12-pane sashes with plain-stone surrounds. Set between bays are doorways (that to right blocked) with composite jambs, basket- arched lintels and chamfered surrounds. Over left door is well-executed inn sign of Royal Coat of Arms. Coped gables with kneelers and C20 brick gable stacks. Barn: 3 bays, 1:1:1. Central gabled bay breaks forward and has segmental-arched cart-entry (altered to window) with pitching eye above; ashlar coping. Flanking bays each have a central doorway (to former stables) flanked by windows with deep lintels and a central window above. Rear: earlier than front: central doorway with composite jambs, Tudor-arched lintel and stop-chamfered surround; one original sash window to left with flush-wood architrave; inserted windows to 1st floor, C19 sash to right of door.
Interior: mainly imported features: 2 fireplaces created from cut-down doorways with richly-moulded surrounds salvaged from Heath Old Hall (demolished); panelling from various sources; stop-chamfered spine-beam and square-cut joists. Barn has 4-bay fish-bone king-post roof.
Listing NGR: SE3564519933
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 342384
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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