The Kings Arms
THE KINGS ARMS, 9, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355726
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Kings Arms
- Statutory Address:
- THE KINGS ARMS, 9, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355726
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Kings Arms
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE KINGS ARMS, 9, HIGH 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:
- THE KINGS ARMS, 9, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Downton
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 18095 21521
Details
DOWNTON HIGH STREET SU 1821 (north side) 6/86 No 9 (The Kings Arms)
GV II
Inn. C15 timber-framed ranges with original roof, refacing of south front mid C18, west front refaced late C18. Timber-frame faced in Flemish bond brick, hipped tiled roof with brick stacks. L-plan, through passage. 2-storey, 7-window. To right is chamfered, Tudor-arched door surround with tiled canopy, one 6-pane sash to right, to left are five 6-pane sashes and one blind window; all segmental-headed. First floor has six 6-pane sashes and one blind window. Ground floor brick has scratched date: WL 1746. Left return has central 6-panelled door with flat wooden hood on brackets, to right is segmental-headed tripartite sash, to left are inserted double planked doors. First floor has two 6-pane sashes and one blind window. To left of door is brick with scratched date: MD 1765. To rear are two projecting wings, right one with half-hipped roof. Central range has two planked doors, two 2-light casements to first floor. Wing to left has 2-light and 3-light casements to ground floor and half-dormer to attic, verandah with slate roof. Attached to rear left is single-storey extension with 2-light casements and slate roof. Interior has chamfered ceiling beams in east range, some surviving timber-framing on ground floor to east wall and first floors to west and north walls. Roof trusses have cambered tie-beams with pairs of 'V' struts to collars. (Unpublished records of RCHM (England), Salisbury)
Listing NGR: SU1810421530
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 319645
- 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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