Kings Arms

SJ 6634-6734 13/74 7.5.52

MARKET DRAYTON C.P. SHROPSHIRE STREET (south-east side) No. 49 (Kings Arms) (formerly listed as The King's Arms )

GV II

House, now inn. Dated 1674. Late C19 or early C20 alterations. Timber framed with painted brick and plastered infill; front refaced with late C19 or early C20 planted timbers. Plain tile roof. Framing: small square panels (3 from sole plate to wall plate) with short straight corner braces. Baffle entry plan of 3 framed bays. One storey and attic. Brick ridge stack off-centre to left (rebuilt above ridge c.1900) and brick end stack to right. 3 large C17 timber framed gabled semi dormers with 4-and 5-light wooden and metal-framed wooden casements, jettied gables with chamfered brackets supporting roll-moulded bressumers with ogee, stops, planted timbers and plain barge boards. 4-window front; C20 two- and 3-light casements with wider plate-glass lower lights. Pair of 2- panelled doors between first and second windows from left with moulded architrave. 2-storey gabled porch with pair of cusped wooden brackets supporting moulded side beams and carved bressumer dated:"167+", 2-:3-: 2-light first-floor wooden casements, planted timbers in gable and plain barge boards. C19 four-panelled door between second and third window from left. Collar and tie-beam truss exposed in left-hand gable end-with queen struts, and painted king strut and V struts. Gabled wing projecting at rear; red brick and dressed red sandstone integral lateral brick stack. Interior only partly inspected. Chamfered beams noted.

Listing NGR: SJ6741534030