Description

SE 3519 and SE 3520 WARMFIELD-CUM-HEATH HEATH COMMON
(south side)

6/79 Kings Arms
31.7.79

GV II

Pair of attached cottages and attached barn converted to public house. Cottages:
rear c1690, front early C18 converted to public house c1841 when barn or coach-
house was added to left. Hammer-dressed stone, brick to rear, stone slate roof.
2 storeys. Original cottages (now main part of public house): three 1st-floor
windows. Quoins. 3 bays of 12-pane sashes with plain-stone surrounds. Set
between bays are doorways (that to right blocked) with composite jambs, basket-
arched lintels and chamfered surrounds. Over left door is well-executed inn sign
of Royal Coat of Arms. Coped gables with kneelers and C20 brick gable stacks.
Barn: 3 bays, 1:1:1. Central gabled bay breaks forward and has segmental-arched
cart-entry (altered to window) with pitching eye above; ashlar coping. Flanking
bays each have a central doorway (to former stables) flanked by windows with deep
lintels and a central window above. Rear: earlier than front: central doorway
with composite jambs, Tudor-arched lintel and stop-chamfered surround; one original
sash window to left with flush-wood architrave; inserted windows to 1st floor,
C19 sash to right of door.

Interior: mainly imported features: 2 fireplaces created from cut-down doorways
with richly-moulded surrounds salvaged from Heath Old Hall (demolished); panelling
from various sources; stop-chamfered spine-beam and square-cut joists. Barn has
4-bay fish-bone king-post roof.

Listing NGR: SE3564519933

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26428927

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)