Kings Arms Public House

SALFORD

SJ8398NW BLOOM STREET 949-1/20/12 (South West side) 01/12/87 King's Arms Public House

GV II

Public house. 1879. Red brick with stone dressings and Welsh slate roof in conical form with roof glazing and twin spirelets. Gothic style. Semicircular plan on corner site. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic. Elevation to Bloom Street has 6-window range of round-headed sash windows to first floor with linked stone mouldings forming 4-centred arches over them, and stone sills linked by string course. Ground floor similar but with coursed rubble and blue brick plinth; entrance bay has round-headed doorway flanked by short banded granite columns with stiff leaf capitals; drip mould with scroll stops, marble 'King's Arms' in mosaic in spandrels, triple window above. Above this, decorative brickwork frieze and stone balconette with wrought ironwork carried on machicolations to triple arched-headed attic windows. Stone coped gable shaped around a richly carved Royal Arms. Further doorway on curved corner now blocked. Window with balconette above, and gable with 'King's Arms' in mosaic. 3-window return to Sackville Street, with central door and gabled dormer over. Variegated roof line with tall stacks and 5 gabled dormers in alternate bays separated by bracketed cornice with plain parapet. Long glazed and leaded lantern in roof providing top lighting to attic room.

Listing NGR: SJ8311298631