Kings Arms PH

The Kings Arms Public House is a building that has been rendered and lime washed, likely over a combination of rubble stone and timber framing. It features a natural slate roof with red and yellow brick chimneys. The structure is a single depth continuous jetty range that runs parallel to the street, with a large wing added to the rear left in the early 19th century and other extensions mostly from the 20th century. It stands two storeys high with an attic and has an under storey in the wing where the ground slopes down towards the Town Wall.

On the ground floor facing Nevill Street, there are five windows, two of which on the right have had their sashes replaced since the building was listed in 1974. From the left, the windows include a tripartite sash with 6 over 6 panes flanked by two 2 over 2 sashes, a narrow 4 over 4 pane sash, another 4 over 4 pane sash, a panelled entrance door, and two 6 over 6 pane sashes. The first floor features a similar tripartite sash slightly to the right, along with a painted plaster coat-of-arms from the time of Charles II, a brick stack added to the front wall, a 6 over 6 pane sash, and a projecting 20th-century inn sign on a wrought iron bracket, which is not shown in older photographs. There are also two 6 over 6 pane sashes positioned slightly higher. The roof is plain and has two flat-topped 2-light dormers and four brick stacks, with two located behind the ridge, one on the front wall, and a tall one in the cross-passage area. The left return has a single-storey triangular lean-to with a plank door and a small window.

The wing includes a small window and a tripartite sash on the lower floor, with two 6 over 6 pane sashes above. There is a 4 over 4 pane sash facing Nevill Street in the gable wall, and the roof is plain. The older rear wing to the east is present, but otherwise, the extensions are modern.

The building has a cross-passage plan with large rooms on either side on the ground floor. The cross-passage retains remnants of a post-and-panel screen, while the right-hand room features reed-moulded oak ceiling beams, and the left-hand room has undecorated beams. Although the fireplace that backed onto the cross-passage is no longer there, the stack remains. The upper floor was not inspected.