Royal Kings Arms Hotel and 2-8 King Street
2-8, King Street, Lancaster, LA1 1JN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298362
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Kings Arms Hotel and 2-8 King Street
- Statutory Address:
- 2-8, King Street, Lancaster, LA1 1JN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298362
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Kings Arms Hotel and 2-8 King Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2-8, King Street, Lancaster, LA1 1JN
- Statutory Address 2:
- Royal Kings Arms Hotel, 75, Market Street, Lancaster, LA1 1JG
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:
- 2-8, King Street, Lancaster, LA1 1JN
- Statutory Address:
- Royal Kings Arms Hotel, 75, Market Street, Lancaster, LA1 1JG
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Lancaster (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 47483 61694
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 9 January 2025 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards.
SD4761NW
1685-1/6/174
LANCASTER
MARKET STREET (south side)
No 75, Royal Kings Arms Hotel
(formerly listed as Nos.75-83 (Odd) Royal King's Arms Hotel)
GV
II
Includes: 2-8, KING STREET.
Hotel and shop. Rebuilt on its original site in 1879 and altered 1988. Designed by Holtom and Connor in the Northern Renaissance style. Sandstone ashlar and ashlar dressings, with bricks at the rear. Slate roofs with coped gables. Reversed L-plan on the corner of Market Street and King Street, and extending along both, with the entrance on Market Street. The facade is a balanced composition of two similar halves, each symmetrical initself, on either side of a narrow canted bay on the corner.
The facade on Market Street has four storeys and an attic, and five bays, including a slightly recessed three bay centre. The ground floor is articulated by six Tuscan pilasters carrying an entablature which extends along the facades on both streets. The entrance is in the centre and has a round-arched, hollow-chamfered doorway of banded rustication, set between pilasters on high bases; each of these has two vertical panels decorated with arabesques, while above is a scrolled pediment. The windows in the upper floors have two, three and two lights; those on the first floor also have a transom and have pediments, triangular to the sides and segmental in the centre. The central light of the second-floor window accommodates a niche, and on the third floor is an inscription which reads: 'ESTABLISHED AD 1629 REBUILT AD 1879'. The outer bays of these upper storeys contain a very tall oriel window lighting a double-height room; above is a tall pedimented gable, which is decorated with a niche containing an urn filled with a plant, a motif which is repeated in all the gables. The canted bay on the corner has, on the ground floor, a shop window which extends one bay into Market Street and along all of the King Street frontage; above is a round-headed French window with a balcony on the first floor, a blind aedicule on the third floor, and an open segmental pediment in front of a chimney.
The facade to King Street is virtually the same as on Market Street, except that it is concave in plan, and the end bays do not have oriel windows, though the right-hand one did originally
Listing NGR: SD4748361694
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383207
- 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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