The Kings Arms Hotel
THE KINGS ARMS HOTEL, 30, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1274789
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1958
- List Entry Name:
- The Kings Arms Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- THE KINGS ARMS HOTEL, 30, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1274789
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1958
- List Entry Name:
- The Kings Arms Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE KINGS ARMS HOTEL, 30, 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, 30, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Amersham
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 95676 97323
Details
1. AMERSHAM HIGH STREET 5134 (south side)
No 30 (The Kings Arms Hotel)
SU 9597 SE 7/99 22.12.58
II* GV
2. C16 and later; formerly two properties, combined, renovated and altered 1936. Timber framed with colourwashed plaster infill, red brick infill to east flank wall. Old tile roof, two large brick stacks with octagonal shafts. Two storeys. Central carriage arch. Section east of this refaced 1936 and eastern gable and dormer added. Modern oak doors and leaded windows. Section west of carriageway is original, hall and crosswing plan, two gables, jettied at first floor. Blocked arched openings between western gable, modern oak door and leaded case- ment windows. Rear elevation has three gables with exposed timber framing, two sash windows to first floor, small tiled lean-to east of carriageway along east wing, short central wing, and rear of C16 cross-wing at west end.
(RCHM I p8 MON 36 (east section) MON 37 (west section))
Listing NGR: SU9568197306
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 414217
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume One South, (1912)
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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