The King'S Arms Public House

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