Listed Building record MWX75 - The Queens Arms Hotel, Charmouth

A sixteenth-century house, formerly a coaching inn and hotel. The building was re-faced in the eighteenth century, and alterations made to the interior in the twentieth century, though a number of internal features survive; these include doorways, beams with carved patterns, and plank-and-muntin panelling. The building has walls of stone rubble, covered with render, and the roof is covered with slates.

The Manse formerly (NAT) Queens Arms Inn (NR) <1>

The Queens Arms Hotel is of two storeys with stone walls and a slate roof. It was built in the early 16th century with central hall, solar and offices in the same range. There are later additions on the west and south. The building is an unusually complete example of a small late medieval house. <2>

According to the owner (a), the house is known as The Queens Arms Hotel and was originally an inn. It is as described by Authority 2 and is in a good state of preservation. <5>

The Queens Arms Hotel, 16th century and later, retains evidence of medieval arrangement of hall, buttery, kitchen and solar. Grade II*. <6>


Used as a manse for an unspecified period, but after 1689. <7>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1930 edition OS map (Map). SWX1540.

<2> DOE (HRR), 1950, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Bridport Rural District 1950, p12 (Scheduling record). SWX1535.

<3> DOE (HRR), 1984, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: District of West Dorset amendment 1984 (Scheduling record). SWX1538.

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 88-89 (Monograph). SDO97.

<5> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 15-FEB-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<6> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, p148 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<7> Stell, C, 1991, An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-Houses in South-West England, 112 (Monograph). SDO11597.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 859429 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 23 2021 12:31PM