King's Arms Inn
KING'S ARMS INN, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318041
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- King's Arms Inn
- Statutory Address:
- KING'S ARMS INN, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318041
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- King's Arms Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- KING'S ARMS INN, FORE 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:
- KING'S ARMS INN, FORE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Winkleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 63206 08124
Details
WINKLEIGH FORE STREET (north side), SS 6308 Winkleigh 11/167 King's Arms Inn 4.10.60 GV II Inn. Circa early C18, possibly with earlier origins, C19 addition. Plastered cob walls. Hipped thatch roof. Rendered rubble stack at left-hand end with brick shaft, 2 brick axial stacks and one at right-hand end. Plan: the building is in 2 parts - the left-hand of which is 2 rooms wide, much deeper and probably the earlier. In front of its right-hand end is a large late C18 or early C19 outshut. The right-hand part is also 2 rooms wide and was a separate cottage. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical front - the left-hand 3-window section has early C20 3-light casements on the 1st floor and below to the left, later C20 casements to the right. Central C19 panelled double doors under flat doorhood. Large outshut projects to the right under catslide roof. The recessed range at the right-hand end has a 3-window front of later C20 2 and 3-light casements and a C20 part-glazed door to right of centre. Interior: room arrangement considerably altered and few original features survive. Roof structure is probably later C18 or C19.
Listing NGR: SS6320608124
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 90958
- 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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