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High Street / Market Square
Westerham
01959 562990
https://www.greenekinginns.co.uk/hotels/kings-arms/
https://whatpub.com/kings-arms
Above photo taken outside the King's Arms in 1836 when the circus came
to town. |
Above print 1870. Kindly sent by Debi Birkin. |
Back of above card. |
Above photo date unknown. |
Above photo date unknown. |
Above print 1870. Note the inscription above the coach entrance for
Barclay & Perkins. Around the time their Southwark based brewery was the
largest in the World! London's great diarist Samuel Johnson had his own
room at the brewery, and his favourite chair was kept in the boardroom
for some time after his death. The brewery initially produced only
porter – a dark style of beer made from brown malt – until 1834, when it
introduced pale ale. It was also well known for its Russian Imperial
Stout.
Above showing the reverse of the 1870 print. |
Above photo, 1900. |
Above menu from Saturday 22nd September 1956. Kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. |
Above from the back of the menu 1956, presumably, this signed menu
card recorded a celebratory dinner of some kind. Possibly family friends
marking a couple's wedding anniversary? Kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. |
Above photo, 2010. |
Above photo 2010. |
Above photo 2013. |
Above sign, February 1986.
With thanks from Brian Curtis
www.innsignsociety.com. |
Above map 2018. |
It is said that the Kings Arms has tunnels underneath but they are not
related to this building.
The site used to be the site of a pretty cottage called Paynters a
hundred years before that it was owned by a monastery. Friars from Limpsfield.
Before that it was given by Henry VIII to his bow bender.
The building is a charming 18th century former coaching inn. In 1924, the
Churchills moved to Chartwell and while the place was being renovated for
them, tradition has it, the family frequently dined at the "King's Arms
Hotel." It wouldn't have been much of a walk for them: the Chartwell estate
bounds the inn yard .
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Kentish Gazette 10 April 1773.
TO BE SOLD.
A well accustomed Public-House, known by the Sign of the "King's Arms,"
with a large Garden, Yard, Stables, Outhouses and Appurtenances
thereunto belonging, situate, lying, and being in Westerham in the
County of Kent; and now in the Occupation of Robert Holden.
For further Particulars apply to Thomas Durrant Punnett. Attorney at Law
at Maidstone.
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From the Kentish Gazette, 4 January 1846.
Westerham.
A meeting was held at Kidder’s hotel, Westerham, on Wednesday last, at
which a very large assemblage of
the gentlemen, farmers, &c., of the neighbourhood, attended to ascertain
the views of the vicinity as to
starting a coach from this place to Croydon and back. Dr. Thompson
having been called to the chair, Mr. P.
Pawley, of the "Royal Hotel," Sevenoaks, explained to the company, that
he, amongst others, had been
called upon by a number of gentlemen in the neighbourhood of Westerham,
seeing that every coach was
off the road, to place them in something like a position to be able to
reach the metropolis. He had great
pleasure in saying that the call had been responded to, and he now stood
before them as the contractor for
such a conveyance. Two coaches started on the 24th, one from Sevenoaks
in the morning, and one from
Croydon Railway Station, each performing a double journey. He felt
assured they should meet with
encouragement; he had been over the ground, and certainly if ever there
was a conveyance wanted it was
here. Westerham, Brasted, and Sundridge, required something like
accommodation, to say nothing of
Sevenoaks. Mr. Pawley made several other apposite observations, and it
was ultimately arranged that these
conveyances should be recommended to general support.
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Sussex Advertiser, Saturday 20 February 1864.
Westerham. Welcome to Captain and Mrs. Board.
A general meeting was held at the "Kings Arms Hotel," on Monday evening
last, to consider the best manner of welcoming Captain. J. and Mrs.
Board home on their return from their wedding tour. Mr. C. R Thompson in
the chair. A committee of eight vol | |