Royal Kings Arms Hotel and 2-8 King Street

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:: 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

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

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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:: 2-8, King Street, Lancaster, LA1 1JN
Statutory Address:: Royal Kings Arms Hotel, 75, Market Street, Lancaster, LA1 1JG

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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

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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.