Old King'S Arms Public House

NEWARK ON TRENT

SK7954SE KIRKGATE 619-1/5/174 (North East side) 19/05/71 Nos.17 & 19 Old King's Arms public house

GV II

House and public house, now shop and public house. Mid C18 and early C18, altered mid C19 and late C20. Brick with stone and stucco dressings and pantile roofs. Cogged eaves, single coped gable, 2 gable and single ridge stacks. Shop, to left, 2 storeys, has a 3 window range of C20 casements with rubbed brick heads. Below, a wooden shopfront, 1989, in late C19 style, with recessed central door flanked by single plate glass windows under full width fascia. Rear wing has cogged eaves and coped gables. 3 storeys; 3 window range of segment headed glazing bar sashes, and above, 3 similar sashes with flat heads. Public house, to right, has a stucco ground floor, plinth and first floor band. 2 storeys plus attics; 6 window range of glazing bar sashes with rubbed brick heads, the end windows being blank. Between the fourth and fifth windows from the left, the royal Arms in cast iron, with a corniced Classical surround. Above, 2 raking dormers with glazing bar Yorkshire sashes. Below the royal Arms, a moulded stone doorcase with cornice and C19 half glazed door, flanked by 2 plain sashes with chamfered openings and keystones. To left, a segment headed carriage opening with keysone and imposts and a plate inscribed "Paxton's Yard". Colourwashed brick rear wing, C18, 2 storeys, 3 window range, has rendered gable and brick addition, 1989. (Buildings of England: N Pevsner, revised E Williamson: Nottinghamshire: Harmondsworth: 1979-: 196).

Listing NGR: SK7982854069