The King's Arms Hotel

The King's Arms Hotel is an inn located on Fore Street in Lostwithiel, dating from around 1800, with later alterations and additions from the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is constructed from slatestone and granite rubble, rendered, and features a slate roof with ridge coping tiles and gable ends, although the stacks have been removed.

The hotel has a double depth plan with a central entrance slightly to the left. Originally, there was a larger principal room to the right and a service room at the rear. To the rear left, there is an attached block made of rubble with granite quoins and a hipped slate roof, which connects to a stable and coach house block via a covered way. A 19th-century service wing is located at the rear right.

The hotel stands two storeys tall with an attic and has four windows on the front façade. The ground floor features paired 4-pane sash windows, a 20th-century door, and a wide 6-pane sash. The first floor has two 12-pane sashes and two 16-pane sashes, alternating in position, while the second floor has four sashes with varying panes of 4, 9, 12, and 9. The ground and first floor windows are set in plain raised architraves with keystones. The left gable end has two 4-pane sashes at ground level.

At the rear, the two-storey block has a central half-glazed door, with 4-pane sashes to the right and left, and three 4-pane sashes on the first floor. A small single-storey block with carriage doors connects the main building to the rear coach house, which has two large 16-pane sashes on the first floor in brick surrounds, and a 16-pane sash, carriage doors, and a narrow door at ground level, all featuring brick segmental heads. The coach house has cast iron guttering with lion masks, and its upper floor, originally a loft, is now used as a meeting room.

To the rear, there is a small two-storey gable-ended service wing on the left. The coach house can also be accessed from the inner yard and contains the remains of a stone newel stair, as well as a straight stair on the inner side for access to the upper floor. The interior has not been inspected.