The King's Arms Public House
THE KING'S ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, HANOVER PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279890
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- The King's Arms Public House
- Statutory Address:
- THE KING'S ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, HANOVER PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279890
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- The King's Arms Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE KING'S ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, HANOVER PLACE
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 KING'S ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, HANOVER PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sunderland (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 38962 57630
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ3857 HANOVER PLACE 920-1/10/15 (North East side) The King's Arms Public House
GV II
Public house. c1880. Brick with ashlar dressings and wood bar front; Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys, 2x3 windows. Gabled front to Beach Street central and end doors, that at right on canted corner to Farringdon Row. 2-leaved end doors have six panels; central doors have 4 panels and plain overlight; all flanked by long panels with paired corbelled Gothic shafts, with clasping rings and foliage capitals, supporting long entablature brackets with prominent ball finials. Glazed bar fronts between doors have panelled stall risers and the left has panelling below window; the right has lower panelling behind window; each window has wood mullion. Painted wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills to 4-pane sashes on first floor; blind round-headed panel with projecting stone sill in gable peak; Roman capitals ANNE STREET incised on sandstone plaque at right; BEACH STREET in sans serif letters on painted plaque above. Painted wood board between windows has name The Kings Arms in applied moulded letters. Right return with similar treatment has door under third window and has intermediate paired shafts and entablature brackets; moulded letters with THE KINGS ARMS applied directly. Fascia to front has painted Beach Street and Anne Street names, and Hanover Place and Farringdon Row painted on right return. Former Anne Street now blocked and new road laid out, so changing relationship with the two streets on the right.
Listing NGR: NZ3896257630
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391469
- 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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