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The King's Arms Public House

A Grade II Listed Building in Millfield, Sunderland

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.9119 / 54°54'42"N

Longitude: -1.3938 / 1°23'37"W

OS Eastings: 438962

OS Northings: 557631

OS Grid: NZ389576

Mapcode National: GBR V9X.MC

Mapcode Global: WHD55.KSHV

Plus Code: 9C6WWJ64+QF

Entry Name: The King's Arms Public House

Listing Date: 17 October 1994

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1279890

English Heritage Legacy ID: 391469

ID on this website: 101279890

Location: Ayre's Quay, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, SR4

County: Sunderland

Electoral Ward/Division: Millfield

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Sunderland

Traditional County: Durham

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Tyne and Wear

Church of England Parish: Millfield St Mark

Church of England Diocese: Durham

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Description



SUNDERLAND

NZ3857 HANOVER PLACE
920-1/10/15 (North East side)
The King's Arms Public House

GV II

Public house. c1880. Brick with ashlar dressings and wood bar
front; Welsh slate roof.
2 storeys, 2x3 windows. Gabled front to Beach Street central
and end doors, that at right on canted corner to Farringdon
Row. 2-leaved end doors have six panels; central doors have 4
panels and plain overlight; all flanked by long panels with
paired corbelled Gothic shafts, with clasping rings and
foliage capitals, supporting long entablature brackets with
prominent ball finials. Glazed bar fronts between doors have
panelled stall risers and the left has panelling below window;
the right has lower panelling behind window; each window has
wood mullion. Painted wedge stone lintels and projecting stone
sills to 4-pane sashes on first floor; blind round-headed
panel with projecting stone sill in gable peak; Roman capitals
ANNE STREET incised on sandstone plaque at right; BEACH STREET
in sans serif letters on painted plaque above. Painted wood
board between windows has name The Kings Arms in applied
moulded letters.
Right return with similar treatment has door under third
window and has intermediate paired shafts and entablature
brackets; moulded letters with THE KINGS ARMS applied
directly.
Fascia to front has painted Beach Street and Anne Street
names, and Hanover Place and Farringdon Row painted on right
return. Former Anne Street now blocked and new road laid out,
so changing relationship with the two streets on the right.


Listing NGR: NZ3896257630

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