Description

1. AMERSHAM HIGH STREET
5134 (south side)

No 30 (The Kings Arms
Hotel)

SU 9597 SE 7/99 22.12.58

II* GV

2.
C16 and later; formerly two properties, combined, renovated and altered 1936.
Timber framed with colourwashed plaster infill, red brick infill to east flank
wall. Old tile roof, two large brick stacks with octagonal shafts. Two
storeys.
Central carriage arch. Section east of this refaced 1936 and eastern gable and
dormer added. Modern oak doors and leaded windows. Section west of carriageway
is original, hall and crosswing plan, two gables, jettied at first floor.
Blocked arched openings between western gable, modern oak door and leaded case-
ment windows.
Rear elevation has three gables with exposed timber framing, two sash windows
to first floor, small tiled lean-to east of carriageway along east wing, short
central wing, and rear of C16 cross-wing at west end.

(RCHM I p8 MON 36 (east section) MON 37 (west section))

Listing NGR: SU9568197306

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17539966

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Recommended Books

• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)