Kings Arms

The Kings Arms is a pair of attached cottages with an attached barn, converted into a public house. The rear of the cottages dates to around 1690, with the front added in the early 18th century. Further alterations occurred around 1841, when the barn or coach house was added to the left, and the building was converted into a public house. The cottages are built of hammer-dressed stone, with brick to the rear, and have a stone slate roof. The main part of the public house has three first-floor windows, with quoins visible. The windows are 12-pane sashes with plain stone surrounds. Doorways are set between the bays, one blocked, with composite jambs, basket-arched lintels, and chamfered surrounds. An inn sign depicting a Royal Coat of Arms is above the left door. Coped gables with kneelers and 20th-century brick gable stacks are present. The barn has three bays, with a central gabled bay projecting and featuring a segmental-arched cart-entry, now a window, with a pitching eye above; it has ashlar coping. Flanking bays each have a central doorway (originally leading to stables), flanked by windows with deep lintels, and a central window above. The rear of the cottages is earlier than the front, with a central doorway featuring composite jambs, a Tudor-arched lintel, and stop-chamfered surrounds. One original sash window with a flush-wood architrave is to the left of the door, with inserted windows to the first floor and a 19th-century sash to the right of the door. The interior largely features imported details, including two fireplaces created from cut-down doorways with richly-moulded surrounds salvaged from the demolished Heath Old Hall, panelling from various sources, and stop-chamfered spine-beams and square-cut joists. The barn possesses a four-bay fish-bone king-post roof.