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The King's Arms Public House

A Grade II Listed Building in Buckfastleigh, Devon

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.4814 / 50°28'52"N

Longitude: -3.7763 / 3°46'34"W

OS Eastings: 274069

OS Northings: 66126

OS Grid: SX740661

Mapcode National: GBR QG.Y1M8

Mapcode Global: FRA 27ZS.GMT

Plus Code: 9C2RF6JF+HF

Entry Name: The King's Arms Public House

Listing Date: 6 January 1983

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1292837

English Heritage Legacy ID: 392289

Also known as: Kings Arms Hotel

ID on this website: 101292837

Location: Buckfastleigh, Teignbridge, Devon, TQ11

County: Devon

District: Teignbridge

Civil Parish: Buckfastleigh

Built-Up Area: Buckfastleigh

Traditional County: Devon

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon

Church of England Parish: Buckfastleigh

Church of England Diocese: Exeter

Tagged with: Pub

Description


BUCKFASTLEIGH

SX7466 FORE STREET 1011-1/7/97 (South side) 06/01/83 The King's Arms Public House

GV II

Public house and hotel. c1820s. Stuccoed and blocked out; slate roof concealed behind parapet; stacks with rendered shafts with platbands; cast-iron rainwater goods. Plan: double-depth plan, 2 rooms wide with an entrance into hall from which an imperial stair rises with a gallery to the first-floor rooms. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 5-bay, 4-window front. Parapet above deep projecting cornice. Central stuccoed doorcase has pilasters with moulded capitals, entablature and moulded cornice. Segmental-headed doorway with white marble step, paired doors, 3 panels to each leaf, with glazed side panels and a segmental-headed fanlight. All windows have eared moulded architraves and sill blocks and are glazed with early C19 hornless 12-pane sashes, bottom light of ground-floor window left blocked. 2-leaf half-glazed inner door with side lights and overlight with Gothick glazing bars. Rear elevation has rear centre lateral stack and early C19 12-pane sash windows. INTERIOR: preserves original joinery including reeded doorcases and original stick baluster imperial stair with open string and brackets and stick baluster balustrade to first-floor stair gallery. Historical note: the building to the right (west) now the National Westminster Bank (qv), was originally the assembly rooms to the hotel.

Listing NGR: SX7406966126

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