The Kings Arms Hotel
THE KINGS ARMS HOTEL, 29, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269405
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1949
- List Entry Name:
- The Kings Arms Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- THE KINGS ARMS HOTEL, 29, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269405
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1949
- List Entry Name:
- The Kings Arms Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE KINGS ARMS HOTEL, 29, HIGH 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:
- THE KINGS ARMS HOTEL, 29, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Malmesbury
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 93307 87116
Details
MALMESBURY
ST9387 HIGH STREET 758-1/4/153 (West side) 18/01/49 No.29 The Kings Arms Hotel
GV II
Coaching inn and house, now one hotel. Early C17, main range refronted c1821, extended to rear c1856. Rendered limestone rubble with limestone ashlar plinth and ashlar and brick end stacks, and stone slate roof. PLAN: 2 rooms deep with axial first-floor passage, rear C19 N wing, and 2-bay S gabled house. EXTERIOR: a symmetrical front has a central flat-arched through carriage way with a horned 8/8-pane sash above, flanked by wide full-height bays with paired 8/8-pane sashes to ground and first floors, and 2 gabled casement dormers above. Doorways from the sides of the passage, with a blocked left-hand doorway to the front. At the left-hand end a mid C17 gable, jettied forward of the main front above the ground floor, has paired ground floor 8/8-pane sashes, 2 first-floor 2-light casements, and a 9-pane attic window. Rear S 2-light C17 first-floor window. N wing above C19 cellar. INTERIOR: details include an altered ground floor with wide stone fireplace, left-hand late C18 rear dogleg stair with stick balusters and curtail; first floor front rooms have chamfered beams with cyma stops; collar truss roof with 2 trenched purlins.
Listing NGR: ST9329687114
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 460817
- 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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