The King'S Arms Public House

The King's Arms Public House is a public house and hotel built around the 1820s. It features a stuccoed exterior with a slate roof that is hidden behind a parapet. The building has a double-depth plan, consisting of two rooms wide, with an entrance leading into a hall where an imperial staircase rises, complete with a gallery that provides access to the first-floor rooms.

The exterior is two storeys high and has a symmetrical five-bay, four-window front. Above a deep projecting cornice, there is a parapet. The central doorcase is stuccoed and includes pilasters with moulded capitals, an entablature, and a moulded cornice. The doorway is segmental-headed and features a white marble step, paired doors with three panels on each leaf, glazed side panels, and a segmental-headed fanlight. All windows are adorned with eared moulded architraves and sill blocks, and they are fitted with early 19th-century hornless 12-pane sash windows, although the bottom light of the ground-floor window is blocked. Inside, there is a two-leaf half-glazed inner door with sidelights and an overlight featuring Gothick glazing bars. The rear elevation includes a central lateral stack and early 19th-century 12-pane sash windows.

The interior retains original joinery, including reeded doorcases and an original stick baluster imperial staircase with an open string and brackets, as well as a stick baluster balustrade leading to the first-floor stair gallery. Historically, the building to the west, now the National Westminster Bank, was originally the assembly rooms for the hotel.