The Kings Arms Public House
THE KINGS ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, 60, PEMBROKE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386317
- Date first listed:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- The Kings Arms Public House
- Statutory Address:
- THE KINGS ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, 60, PEMBROKE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386317
- Date first listed:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- The Kings Arms Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE KINGS ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, 60, PEMBROKE STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE KINGS ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, GEORGE 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 PUBLIC HOUSE, 60, PEMBROKE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE KINGS ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, GEORGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Plymouth (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX4557454344
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX4554 PEMBROKE STREET, Devonport
740-1/54/146 (West side)
No.60
The Kings Arms Public House
II
Includes: The Kings Arms Public House GEORGE STREET Devonport.
Public house on street corner. Late C19.
MATERIALS: polychrome brick with dressed stone, terracotta and
glazed tile detail; roof hidden behind coped parapet with
moulded cornices and turned balustrades above windows; turret
on corner with heavy moulded cornice above bracketed frieze
and tower to right of return with steep pyramidal copper roof
and finial behind a balustraded parapet with moulded cornice;
at least 1 brick stack.
PLAN: long rectangular plan with canted corner bay.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys plus octagonal corner turret, with keyed
round-arched windows with octagonal angle mullions (above
2-storey oriel), and tower with Diocletian windows to upper
stage. Road frontage to George Street and longer return into
Pembroke Street is 1:1:5:1 bays. Corner bay has 3-light oriel
windows over round-arched doorway with chamfered jambs and
fanlight with margin panes over C20 door. Tower bay has 2
keyed window openings over a round-arched doorway with
small-paned fanlight and original panelled door. The other
bays have moulded eared architraves to 1st and 2nd-floor
windows, those to 1st floor with keyblocks and moulded
entablature; 2-light transomed casements with glazing bars
above the transoms. Moulded entablature with trailing frieze
above ground floor which has round-arched window openings with
moulded glazed arches with stepped keys, the arches springing
from glazed piers above an ashlar pedestal/plinth, and there
are cartouches to the spandrels; 3-light windows with double
transoms and glazing bars above the transoms.
INTERIOR: not inspected except to note elaborate moulded and
carved cornice to large ground-floor bar.
Included as an externally impressive and well-detailed example
of a late C19 public house design.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1990-:
676).
Listing NGR: SX4557454344
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473702
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 676
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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