Kings Arms Hotel
KINGS ARMS HOTEL, 40, HOLYWELL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1335897
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Kings Arms Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- KINGS ARMS HOTEL, 40, HOLYWELL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1335897
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Kings Arms Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- KINGS ARMS HOTEL, 40, HOLYWELL 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:
- KINGS ARMS HOTEL, 40, HOLYWELL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Oxford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 51570 06528
Details
HOLYWELL STREET 1. 1485 (North Side) No 40 (King's Arms Hotel) SP 5106 NE 6/188 12.1.54. II GV 2. RCHM 196. Corner site on to Parks Road. South elevation. Rebuilt early in C18. 3 storeyed stuccoed timber-framed with cellars. It consists of 2 buildings and has 6 sash windows, some of which have reeded architraves and 1, in the lst floor, is a 3-light sash window with a pedimented reeded architrave. The East building is of lower height and has a bold early C18 modillioned eaves cornice. The West building has a late C18 moulded and dentilled eaves cornice. The West elevation on Parks Road has the front doorway and 5 windows similar to those on the South and has an eaves cornice carried round from the West part of the South front. This West front is probably later in date than most of the South. In the courtyard at the back the North wing on the West is 2-storeyed timber-framed roughcast with 4 C18 windows in wood frames. Interior: RCHM p 180 b. Includes an early C18 staircase and 2 C18 fireplaces. Altered 1971.
All the listed buildings on the North Side form a group.
Listing NGR: SP5156906534
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 245582
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of the City of Oxford, (1939), 180
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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