Description

SO 9723 PRESTBURY HIGH STREET
(north side)

20/70 The King's Arms

4.7.60

GV II

Inn. C17 with C18 and C19 extensions. Square-panelled timber-
framing with some curved and some straight bracing and rendered
and painted brick infill. Timber-framing set on a high coursed
squared and dressed limestone plinth. C18 and C19 extensions;
brick and painted brick. Stone slate on roof pitch facing The High
Street, red tile otherwise. Brick stacks. Rectangular plan to
timber-framed range with single bay early C20 extension to right,
C18 and C19 extensions run away at right angles to rear of these.
Timber-framed range; 2 bays, 2½ storeys with jettied gable to
left-hand bay. Jettied gable to left-hand bay. Three and 4-light
casements to early core with leaded panes. Some casements with
early fastenings. Plank door with fillets and an early thumb
latch, within a heavy pegged frame to ground floor jettied section.
Brick-built bay to right with C20 five-light stone-mullioned
casement to ground floor. Two-light casement with leaded panes to
first floor. Access through C20 lean-to porch at right gable end.
Projecting gable-end and axial stacks.
Interior; ceiling beams with deep flat chamfers. Open plan.

Listing NGR: SO9702623903

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