THE KINGS ARMS HOTEL

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:: THE KINGS ARMS HOTEL, 29, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

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

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.

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

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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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

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Legacy System number:: 460817
Legacy System:: LBS

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