The Kings Arms Public House

PLYMOUTH

SX4554 PEMBROKE STREET, Devonport 740-1/54/146 (West side) No.60 The Kings Arms Public House

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Includes: The Kings Arms Public House GEORGE STREET Devonport.

Public house on street corner. Late C19. MATERIALS: polychrome brick with dressed stone, terracotta and glazed tile detail; roof hidden behind coped parapet with moulded cornices and turned balustrades above windows; turret on corner with heavy moulded cornice above bracketed frieze and tower to right of return with steep pyramidal copper roof and finial behind a balustraded parapet with moulded cornice; at least 1 brick stack. PLAN: long rectangular plan with canted corner bay. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys plus octagonal corner turret, with keyed round-arched windows with octagonal angle mullions (above 2-storey oriel), and tower with Diocletian windows to upper stage. Road frontage to George Street and longer return into Pembroke Street is 1:1:5:1 bays. Corner bay has 3-light oriel windows over round-arched doorway with chamfered jambs and fanlight with margin panes over C20 door. Tower bay has 2 keyed window openings over a round-arched doorway with small-paned fanlight and original panelled door. The other bays have moulded eared architraves to 1st and 2nd-floor windows, those to 1st floor with keyblocks and moulded entablature; 2-light transomed casements with glazing bars above the transoms. Moulded entablature with trailing frieze above ground floor which has round-arched window openings with moulded glazed arches with stepped keys, the arches springing from glazed piers above an ashlar pedestal/plinth, and there are cartouches to the spandrels; 3-light windows with double transoms and glazing bars above the transoms. INTERIOR: not inspected except to note elaborate moulded and carved cornice to large ground-floor bar. Included as an externally impressive and well-detailed example of a late C19 public house design. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1990-: 676).

Listing NGR: SX4557454344