KINGS ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE

KINGS ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, HORSEFAIR

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1200414
Date first listed:: 08-Dec-1955
List Entry Name:: KINGS ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address:: KINGS ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, HORSEFAIR

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1200414
Date first listed:: 08-Dec-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 05-May-1988
List Entry Name:: KINGS ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: KINGS ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, HORSEFAIR

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Location

Statutory Address:: KINGS ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, HORSEFAIR

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: Cherwell (District Authority)
Parish:: Deddington
National Grid Reference:: SP 46668 31754

Details

SP4631 DEDDINGTON HORSEFAIR (North side) 8/180 King's Arms Public House 08/12/55 (Formerly listed as King's Arms Hotel)

GV II Inn, now public house. Probably early/mid C16, re-modelled mid C17 and altered late C18/early C19. Rendered stone; Stonesfield-slate and Welsh-slate roofs with rubble-and-brick stacks. 2-unit through-passage plan plus long cross-wing. 2 storeys plus attic. Centre of 4-window front has a gabled rectangular 2-storey bay window, with 6-light stone-mullioned windows below flat label moulds in both floors; gable wall of cross wing, to left, has a similar bay window at ground floor only, now without its mullions, and has a 16-pane sash above. Bay window- may be C17 additions. Remaining bays of front include a third bay window, probably early C18, with a 6-light casement above which are two 16-pane sashes. Bay windows are linked by a C20 flat canopy, sheltering fielded 6-panel doors, set between the projections. Steep-pitched roof has a brick gable stack to right and returns on left to the 2-window cross wing, which has a large projecting lateral stack in line with main range. Wing has C18 and C19 casements, and has a C19 stone rear gable wall. Rear of main range has C20 extensions, partly masking a massive rendered lateral stack with numerous offsets, and has a gabled stair projection which is probably a C17 addition. Interior: main range has the moulded heads of through-passage partitions, to left with wide mortices for a plank screen. Room to right (probably originally unheated) has stop-chamfered spine and lateral beams. Room to left, with a large rubble-arched open fireplace, has heavy stop-chamfered intersecting beam and lateral beams; small Tudor-arched wooden doorway leads to cross-wing. (Rooms now combined into bar). Stair projection to rear of right room has a mid/late-C17 open-well stair with large turned balusters and a square handrail, the lowest balustade extended upwards with 2 more tiers of contemporary balusters. First floor has remains of a chamber fireplace, the bressumer chamfer originally returning down the jambs, 3-bay roof, originally separate from cross-wing roof, retains the timber-framed left gable (now internal) with closely-spaced studs, and has a similar truss over the through passage; between them is an arch-braced collar truss with a later tiebean. Roof was probably reconstructed with new purlins and an attic floor in C17 after structural failure but retains massive rafters and 2 curved windbraces. Cross-wing contains a long room with smaller stop-chamfered intersecting beans and perimeter beams dividing the ceiling into 8 panels; rear room has a heavy chamfered beam with closely-spaced unchamfered joists; a timber-framed cross passage (with later stair) divides the range at both floors. Roof is much altered and reinforced but retains at least one arch-braced collar truss. Neither roof shows smoke blackening, but principal first-floor room in each range was probably originally open to rafters. A rare example of the use of partial timber-framing in a stone-building region. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p571; VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol XI, p86)

Listing NGR: SP4666831754

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Legacy System number:: 243905
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 571
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1983), 86

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.