Nos 1-3 Kings Arms And Kings Arm Cottage

Nos. 1-3 Kings Arms and Kings Arm Cottage comprise a former coaching inn, divided in the late 20th century into four tenements. The property has a core of 17th-century fabric that was considerably remodelled in the 19th century and again in the late 20th century. The construction is of painted roughcast rendered stone rubble and cob, with a slate roof to the left and a bitumenized slate roof at the right end. There are gable ends and rendered stacks at the left end and along the axis of the building.

Nos. 1-3 to the left appear to represent the early core of a probable 17th-century three-room and cross-passage plan. This was entirely remodelled in the late 18th or early 19th century, when the rear wall appears to have been built out to create a plan depth of one and a half rooms. A staircase was added to the rear of the left-hand room, and the original principal stairs in the passage were replaced in the late 20th century. Kings Arm Cottage at the right end appears to date from the late 18th century, with 19th-century remodelling. It has a single-room width and a plan depth of one and a half rooms, with a winder staircase to the rear right-hand corner of the rear room, the upper storey extending over a wide carriageway through to a rear courtyard at the right end.

The front elevation has two storeys and a nine window range in total. Nos. 1-3 have a six window range, all featuring 16-pane, horned sash windows. A principal doorway has plain pilasters, a moulded entablature supported by decorative console brackets, and a late 19th-century nine-panelled door with overlight. There are bow windows on either side; the one on the right has a 12-pane sash with 4-pane sliding sidelight sashes, and the one on the left is a 20th-century replacement. A 19th-century style doorcase is at the left end, with a hornless sash window to the right. Kings Arm Cottage to the right has a 16-pane sash above a 4-pane sash to the left, and a 12-pane sash above double plank doors to a carriage entrance to the right of the 12-pane sash, which in turn sits above a recessed six-panelled door.

The interior of Nos. 1-3 has been heavily altered in the 20th century. However, the principal room at the left end retains a partly concealed roll-moulded granite surround to the fireplace, and a late 18th or early 19th-century straight-run staircase with a swept-up moulded handrail and slender turned balusters. Kings Arm Cottage retains much of its original 19th-century joinery. The roof structure is a 19th-century king post design.