Kings Arms Public House Including Barn at Rear
KINGS ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE INCLUDING BARN AT REAR, 7, THE QUAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209930
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Kings Arms Public House Including Barn at Rear
- Statutory Address:
- KINGS ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE INCLUDING BARN AT REAR, 7, THE QUAY
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- Reference:
- IOE01/00029/21
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209930
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Apr-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Kings Arms Public House Including Barn at Rear
- Statutory Address 1:
- KINGS ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE INCLUDING BARN AT REAR, 7, THE QUAY
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 PUBLIC HOUSE INCLUDING BARN AT REAR, 7, THE QUAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bideford
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 45433 26555
Details
BIDEFORD
SS4526 THE QUAY 842-1/5/223 (West side) 19/03/73 No.7 Kings Arms Public House including barn at rear (Formerly Listed as: THE QUAY No.7 King's Arms)
GV II
Public House. Probably C18 or earlier, remodelled mid C19. Solid rendered walls. Slate roof, hipped to left. 2 chimneys on rear wall, that to left of old red brick. Single-depth plan, 3 rooms wide with staircase behind middle room; to rear left a disused warehouse with access from side-alley; traditionally called 'the barn'. 3 storeys; widely-spaced 3-window range. Ground storey has 3 canted bay windows, that to left reduced in width to allow for a small doorway. Main entrance between the 2 left-hand bays has 5-panelled door; cornice on enriched consoles. Bays have sash-windows, the front sashes with margin-panes. Small door is 4-panelled, the top 2 panels glazed. At left-hand end a fourth window with 2-paned sashes. Upper-storey windows have shaped surrounds; 2-paned sashes in second storey; 2-light wood casements in the 5 third-storey windows, each light with 2 panes. Raised quoins flanking whole front. Boxed eaves cornice. Side-alley front has barred sashes and casements like those facing The Quay. INTERIOR: ground-floor bar has chamfered ceiling-beam without stops. Wooden dog-leg staircase rising from first floor; gallery-balustrade at top with thin square balusters and column-newels. Barn has kingpost-and-ridge roof.
Listing NGR: SS4543326555
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 375925
- 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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