Description

SU 8985 COOKHAM HIGH STREET
(south side)

14/17 King's Arms Hotel
25.3.55
G.V. II

Hotel, now bars and restaurant. Late C17, rebuilt mid-C18, extended and altered late C20.
Painted brick, tile coped gabled roof of different heights. Originally rectangular plan,
now irregular with large extensions at rear. Part 2 storeys, part 2 storeys and attics.
Road front: black painted plinth and string course over first-floor windows and at first-
floor level. Lower one-bay wing abutting at left with C19, 3-light casements ground and
first floor, with segmental arches; half-glazed door on right symmetrical main section.
2 gabled dormers, three 2-light casements with overlights on first floor, 4 sash windows
on ground floor with central C18 panelled door under ornate hood with carved brackets.
Interior: fine late C17 dog-leg staircase of 4 flights, going the whole height of main section;
barley sugar balusters, heavy moulded handrails, square newels and closed moulded string.

Listing NGR: SU8964485327

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26590454

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)