Kings Arms Public House
KINGS ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, BLOOM STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386087
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Kings Arms Public House
- Statutory Address:
- KINGS ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, BLOOM STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386087
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Kings Arms Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- KINGS ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, BLOOM 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 PUBLIC HOUSE, BLOOM STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Salford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 83112 98631
Details
SALFORD
SJ8398NW BLOOM STREET 949-1/20/12 (South West side) 01/12/87 King's Arms Public House
GV II
Public house. 1879. Red brick with stone dressings and Welsh slate roof in conical form with roof glazing and twin spirelets. Gothic style. Semicircular plan on corner site. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic. Elevation to Bloom Street has 6-window range of round-headed sash windows to first floor with linked stone mouldings forming 4-centred arches over them, and stone sills linked by string course. Ground floor similar but with coursed rubble and blue brick plinth; entrance bay has round-headed doorway flanked by short banded granite columns with stiff leaf capitals; drip mould with scroll stops, marble 'King's Arms' in mosaic in spandrels, triple window above. Above this, decorative brickwork frieze and stone balconette with wrought ironwork carried on machicolations to triple arched-headed attic windows. Stone coped gable shaped around a richly carved Royal Arms. Further doorway on curved corner now blocked. Window with balconette above, and gable with 'King's Arms' in mosaic. 3-window return to Sackville Street, with central door and gabled dormer over. Variegated roof line with tall stacks and 5 gabled dormers in alternate bays separated by bracketed cornice with plain parapet. Long glazed and leaded lantern in roof providing top lighting to attic room.
Listing NGR: SJ8311298631
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 471511
- 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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