The Kings Arms

The Kings Arms is a house that was formerly a public house, likely built in the 18th century and extended at the rear in the 19th century. It is constructed of stone rubble, with the front range plastered. The roof is covered in asbestos tiles, featuring gabled ends and a catslide at the rear over the outshuts. The building has a plastered stone rubble gable end stack and tall stone rubble rear lateral stacks topped with yellow clay louvred pots.

The house has a two-room plan, with a straight staircase at the center that forms a lobby entrance, possibly inserted into a cross-passage. To the right of the staircase is a smaller room with a gable end stack, while the left room is heated by a lateral stack at the back. In the 19th century, a heated outshut was added to the rear, with the right end serving as an outbuilding that has a separate side entrance.

The exterior is two storeys high with a symmetrical three-window east front facing the sea. The first floor features an early 19th-century section pane sash window on the left, a central two-light horizontally sliding sash with glazing bars, and later 19th-century four and six-pane sashes. The central doorway has an early 19th-century six-panel door and is sheltered by an open-fronted rendered porch with a slate lean-to roof and stone seats inside against the side walls. On the right side, there is a plank door leading to a store in the rear outshut. The main roof extends down at the rear as a catslide over the outshut, which has a projecting left end and a plank door to the left of center.

The interior remains remarkably unaltered since the 19th century, featuring matchboard partitions and plank doors, including those at the bottom of the stairs. The left room contains an 18th-century glazed china cupboard in the corner, a set upside panelled corner cupboard, and a 20th-century tiled fireplace in the lateral stack. The right room has old benches against the walls and a 19th-century range in the large fireplace. The rear outshuts and first-floor rooms were not inspected.