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The Courtney Arms was situated on The Strand. This grade-II listed pub closed in the 1980s and has now been converted to apartments.

Listed building details:

Public House. Early C18 (information from owner) with late C18 alterations. Flemish bond brick on a stone plinth, rendered and colourwashed to the front; slate roof, hipped at ends; end stacks, front lateral stack with a brick shaft. Plan: L plan, the main block fronting the road with a disused entrance on the front and a single storey block at the left end, the rear right wing overlooking the railway which runs immediately behind the pub. The internal plan is rather altered. Exterior: 2 storeys, single storey block at the left end of the main block. Asymmetrical 2:4 window front with regular fenestration the main block with deep eaves with a moulded and dentilled cornice, platband at first floor level. Porch in the first bay from the right with a canopy on columns, door blocked. C18 sash windows with segmental arched heads: 12-pane to the first floor, 2-pane to the ground floor (which have lost some glazing bars), all with shutters. Courtenay coat of arms in a stone frame with scrolled brackets above porch. The left end block (former stable) has 2 16-pane sashes and 2 attic dormers. The rear elevation of the main block and the inner return of the wing have similar cornices and platbands and 16-pane sash windows with segmental arched heads with keyblocks and shutters with a large oriel on brackets to the rear of the main block with a tripartite small pane sash and 4 pane sashes to the returns. 2 attic dormers to the wing, one to the main block. 1 ground floor window in the wing has been converted to a door. C20 glazed porch in angle between wing and main block. The end of the wing is particularly attractive with a 2 storey bow window with a moulded and dentilled cornice below the bow parapet and a balcony with a cast iron railed parapet. The ground floor bow window has 3 12-pane sashes, the first floor bow window 3 6 over 9 pane sashes. Interior: Not thoroughly inspected. The ground floor of the main block is very altered, but the wing retains C18 doors with fielded panels and an C18 stair with turned balusters, an open string and flat handrail. The old list description dates the building 1790 and describes the bow as added in 1790. Fanny Burney records dining at the Courtenay Arms in 1773, "we dined at an Inn in a room which overlooked the river Ex", Sunday, Sept. 5th 1773. (The Early Diary of Frances Burney, 1768-1778 (1913))

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