Latitude: 53.9572 / 53°57'25"N
Longitude: -1.083 / 1°4'58"W
OS Eastings: 460268
OS Northings: 451619
OS Grid: SE602516
Mapcode National: GBR NQWP.B6
Mapcode Global: WHFC3.BSJR
Plus Code: 9C5WXW48+VQ
Entry Name: The Kings Arms Public House
Listing Date: 24 June 1983
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1257523
English Heritage Legacy ID: 463761
Also known as: Kings Arms, York
Kings Arms
ID on this website: 101257523
Location: York, North Yorkshire, YO1
County: York
Electoral Ward/Division: Guildhall
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: York
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): North Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: York All Saints, Pavement
Church of England Diocese: York
Tagged with: Pub
YORK
SE6051NW KING'S STAITH
1112-1/28/522 (North East side)
24/06/83 No.1
The King's Arms Public House
GV II
Public house. Early C17; partly rebuilt and extended 1898;
modernised 1973-4. Rebuilding of 1898 by Thomas Winn for
Samuel Smith's Brewery.
MATERIALS: front range rough-cast and whitewashed, with
moulded cornice to sprocketed eaves and replica timber-framing
on gable walls; slate roof at front, pantile at rear, with
pierced cresting and barge-boarded gables. Wing rough-cast and
white-washed, with slate roof, and moulded timber eaves
cornice with scrolled wrought-iron brackets. Three stacks, two
brick, one rendered.
EXTERIOR: 2-storey 3-bay front, upper storey jettied on
adjacent fronts to King's Staith and King Street. Original
entrance to King's Staith now blocked by 2-light small-pane
casement window. Flanking windows are similar, of 3-lights,
and all have chamfered sills and lintels of painted stone.
First floor windows are 2 x 4-pane lights in architraves with
moulded sills. Lintel of ground floor centre window relief
carved with date 1898 and initials SS. Moulded jetty plate to
front and right return with dragon beam at corner. Entrance is
C20 door in moulded surround in left return. Right return:
2-storey 2-window wing to right of jettied gable wall. Gable
wall has 1-light first floor window with moulded sill, and
2-light attic window. In wing, ground floor window is 3-light
casement with moulded sill and glass embossed with Art Nouveau
motifs and 'OUSEBRIDGE INN' and 'SMOKE ROOM'. First floor
windows are of 2 and 3 lights with plain sills, and upper
floor has shaped panels of applied timber-framing. Windows in
wing have moulded cornice hoods.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
The inn was known as the 'Ousebridge' between 1898 and 1974.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 151).
Listing NGR: SE6026851619
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