Listed Building record MDO19118 - King's Arms Hotel, High East Street, Dorchester

King's Arms Hotel, (No 30 and 30A High East Street) is a late 18th or early 19th century building of three storeys and attics with stuccoed front. A projecting porch with Roman Doric columns supporting an entablature can be seen on the main front. The late 18th/early 19th century chequer brick stables and outbuildings which back on to Friary Lane include the Kings Arms Tap public house of two storeys which may have originally been a stable building. <1>

No change; name confirmed. See ground photograph. <3>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 1, 119 (Monograph). SDO148.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1 to 25 inch scale map, 1971 (Map). SDO18020.

(SY 69329076) King's Arms Hotel (NAT)

<3> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 10-OCT-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<4> Dicker, V and Ashford, D, 2005, King's Arms, High East Street, Dorchester (Unpublished document). SDO9953.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453515 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 22 2024 7:36PM