The Kings Arms Hotel

MALMESBURY

ST9387 HIGH STREET 758-1/4/153 (West side) 18/01/49 No.29 The Kings Arms Hotel

GV II

Coaching inn and house, now one hotel. Early C17, main range refronted c1821, extended to rear c1856. Rendered limestone rubble with limestone ashlar plinth and ashlar and brick end stacks, and stone slate roof. PLAN: 2 rooms deep with axial first-floor passage, rear C19 N wing, and 2-bay S gabled house. EXTERIOR: a symmetrical front has a central flat-arched through carriage way with a horned 8/8-pane sash above, flanked by wide full-height bays with paired 8/8-pane sashes to ground and first floors, and 2 gabled casement dormers above. Doorways from the sides of the passage, with a blocked left-hand doorway to the front. At the left-hand end a mid C17 gable, jettied forward of the main front above the ground floor, has paired ground floor 8/8-pane sashes, 2 first-floor 2-light casements, and a 9-pane attic window. Rear S 2-light C17 first-floor window. N wing above C19 cellar. INTERIOR: details include an altered ground floor with wide stone fireplace, left-hand late C18 rear dogleg stair with stick balusters and curtail; first floor front rooms have chamfered beams with cyma stops; collar truss roof with 2 trenched purlins.

Listing NGR: ST9329687114