Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW BRENTGOVEL STREET
639-1/7/199 (South side)
No.23
King's Arms Public House

II

Public house. C17 with C19 alterations; older core to part.
Timber-framed, encased in C19 brick, now painted. Old
plaintiles.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and cellars; T-shaped form with a long
rear range. 3 sash windows to the upper storey, all with a
single vertical bar to lights, in heavy cased frames with
shallow reveals, flat cement arches and stone sills. 3 similar
but larger windows to the ground storey and one narrower sash
without glazing-bars. 2 doorways with moulded surrounds have
half-glazed double doors. Pierced and fluted barge-boards to
the west gable. The rear range is rendered, with a
shallow-pitched roof.
INTERIOR: the cellars extend below the whole of the rear
range. Main beams and wallplates are exposed on the upper
storey of the front range. The rear range is in 2 sections
with the half adjoining the front originally lower. The lower
wallplate is visible along the east wall with a barefaced
dovetail halving for a former tie-beam.

Listing NGR: TL8540664359

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Kings Arms Public House official website
• Wikidata Q26657507

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
• 
  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)