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The Polsham Arms was situated at 35 Lower Polsham Road. A grade-II listed pub.

Listed building details:

House. Probably early C17 or earlier in origin, C20 alterations. Roughcast mass wall, clad with unsuitable false timber-framing; slate roof, gabled at ends; end stacks, axial stack and front lateral stack, all with rendered shafts. Plan: Probably 3-room and through- or cross-passage plan in origin with a one-room plan addition at the left end. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 5-window front with a lateral stack with set-offs to right of centre, 3 doorways on front. The finest doorway is to left of the lateral stack and is late C18 with a doorcase with reeded pilasters an entablature and moulded cornice. Probably contemporary half-glazed door with moulded panels. Doorway to right of the stack has a replaced C20 door below a 3-pane overlight. Doorway to left. Various sashes of a late C18/early C19 character. 2 tripartite sashes on the ground floor to the left with 4-pane sashes flanking a 12-pane sash. 12-pane sash between two left-hand doors. 28-pane fixed bar window to ground-floor right. First floor has three 12-pane sashes and one 16-pane sash and a C20 window at the left end. Interior: Partly inspected. Ground floor altered for pub use, features of interest may survive elsewhere.

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Name Dates Comments Clive Rowland 1974 to closure My local for many years.