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Latitude: 51.5829 / 51°34'58"N
Longitude: -2.098 / 2°5'52"W
OS Eastings: 393307
OS Northings: 187116
OS Grid: ST933871
Mapcode National: GBR 2QZ.QDS
Mapcode Global: VH95S.LG7X
Plus Code: 9C3VHWM2+4R
Entry Name: The Kings Arms Hotel
Listing Date: 18 January 1949
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1269405
English Heritage Legacy ID: 460817
ID on this website: 101269405
Location: Malmesbury, Wiltshire, SN16
County: Wiltshire
Civil Parish: Malmesbury
Built-Up Area: Malmesbury
Traditional County: Wiltshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Wiltshire
Church of England Parish: Malmesbury and Brokenborough
Church of England Diocese: Bristol
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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
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