The Kings Arms Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 January 1949. Coaching inn, hotel. 3 related planning applications.
The Kings Arms Hotel
- WRENN ID
- lunar-rampart-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 January 1949
- Type
- Coaching inn, hotel
- Address
- The Kings Arms Hotel, 29, High Street, Malmesbury, SN16 9AA
- OS grid reference
- ST 933 871
- Coordinates
- 51.58286, -2.09799
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Kings Arms Hotel is a coaching inn and house that has been converted into a hotel. It dates from the early 17th century, with the main range being refronted around 1821 and extended to the rear around 1856. The building is constructed of rendered limestone rubble, featuring a limestone ashlar plinth and both ashlar and brick end stacks, topped with a stone slate roof.
The plan consists of two rooms deep with an axial first-floor passage, a rear 19th-century north wing, and a two-bay south gabled house. The symmetrical front has a central flat-arched through carriageway with a horned 8/8-pane sash window above, flanked by wide full-height bays that contain paired 8/8-pane sashes on both the ground and first floors, along with two gabled casement dormers above. There are doorways on either side of the passage, with a blocked doorway on the left-hand side. The left end features a mid-17th-century gable that jetties forward above the ground floor, with paired 8/8-pane sashes on the ground floor, two first-floor 2-light casements, and a 9-pane attic window. There is also a 2-light 17th-century window on the first floor at the rear south side, and the north wing has a 19th-century cellar.
Inside, the ground floor has been altered but includes a wide stone fireplace. The left-hand rear features a late 18th-century dogleg stair with stick balusters and a curtail. The front rooms on the first floor have stop-chamfered beams with cyma stops, and the roof is supported by a collar truss with two trenched purlins.
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