Kings Arms
KINGS ARMS, 49, SHROPSHIRE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176950
- Date first listed:
- 07-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Kings Arms
- Statutory Address:
- KINGS ARMS, 49, SHROPSHIRE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176950
- Date first listed:
- 07-May-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Kings Arms
- Statutory Address 1:
- KINGS ARMS, 49, SHROPSHIRE STREET
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, 49, SHROPSHIRE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Market Drayton
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ6741534030
Details
SJ 6634-6734
13/74
7.5.52
MARKET DRAYTON C.P.
SHROPSHIRE STREET
(south-east side)
No. 49 (Kings Arms)
(formerly listed as The King's Arms )
GV
II
House, now inn. Dated 1674. Late C19 or early C20 alterations. Timber
framed with painted brick and plastered infill; front refaced with late
C19 or early C20 planted timbers. Plain tile roof. Framing: small
square panels (3 from sole plate to wall plate) with short straight corner
braces. Baffle entry plan of 3 framed bays. One storey and attic.
Brick ridge stack off-centre to left (rebuilt above ridge c.1900) and
brick end stack to right. 3 large C17 timber framed gabled semi dormers
with 4-and 5-light wooden and metal-framed wooden casements, jettied gables
with chamfered brackets supporting roll-moulded bressumers with ogee,
stops, planted timbers and plain barge boards. 4-window front; C20 two-
and 3-light casements with wider plate-glass lower lights. Pair of 2-
panelled doors between first and second windows from left with moulded
architrave. 2-storey gabled porch with pair of cusped wooden brackets
supporting moulded side beams and carved bressumer dated:"167+", 2-:3-:
2-light first-floor wooden casements, planted timbers in gable and plain
barge boards. C19 four-panelled door between second and third window
from left. Collar and tie-beam truss exposed in left-hand gable end-with
queen struts, and painted king strut and V struts. Gabled wing projecting
at rear; red brick and dressed red sandstone integral lateral brick stack.
Interior only partly inspected. Chamfered beams noted.
Listing NGR: SJ6741534030
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 260378
- 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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