Description

SO 8463 OMBERSLEY CP WORCESTER ROAD (east side)

9/214 King's Arms Public House

29.12.52
GV II

House, now public house. C15, altered and extended Cl7, mid-C19 and mid-C20.
Timber-framed, rendered infill, brick replacement walling, dressed sandstone
base, plain tiled roofs, four diagonal brick stacks to main ridge with over-
sailing cap courses. Main range of four framed bays with lobby-entry in
left end bay and with a cross-wing of two framed bays at north end and single
framed bay addition to rear right. Two storeys, cellar and attic with dormers.
Framing: main part has some close-set vertical studding to front ground floor,
otherwise mainly one panel to ground floor and three to first floor; straight
braces across lower corners of first floor; cross-wing is jettied at front
on brackets with moulded bressummer and has close-set vertical studding at
first floor level to front and on left side elevation; two large gabled dormers
in main roof have collar-and-tie-beam trusses with queen struts and V-struts
in apex; truss at right gable end has two collars and tie-beam, partly
rebuilt in brick and painted to simulate framing; cross-wing has single
collar-and-tie-beam truss with close-set vertical studding. Front elevation:
plank weathering between main storeys; main part has a ground floor 3-light
casement and a 16-pane sash; first floor has a 3-light casement flanked
by oriel windows on single decoratively carved brackets (both of three lights);
the outer lights of the right side window are blocked; in the narrow left bay
are C20 paired plank and battened doors with cambered doorheads; the cross-
wing gable end has a ground floor 3-light casement and a first floor oriel
window on a decoratively carved bracket. Interior: lobby-entry with large
inglenook back-to-back fireplaces in left bay; front ground floor room of
cross-wing has plaster ceiling decorated with Garter, a floral design, a
mermaid and a Tudor rose; main beams are stop-chamfered. The house is
traditionally believed to have received Charles II after the Battle of
Worcester.

Listing NGR: SO8453763494

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26468427

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Recommended Books

• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)