The King's Arms Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Sunderland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1994. Public house.
The King's Arms Public House
- WRENN ID
- low-thatch-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sunderland
- Constituency
- Sunderland Central MP: Lewis Atkinson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1994
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The King's Arms Public House, Hanover Place
- OS grid reference
- NZ 389 576
- Coordinates
- 54.91188, -1.39381
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The King's Arms Public House is a public house built around 1880. It is constructed of brick with ashlar dressings and features a wooden bar front, topped with a Welsh slate roof. The building has two storeys and is arranged with two sets of three windows. The gabled front faces Beach Street and includes central and end doors, with the right door located on a canted corner to Farringdon Row. The end doors are two-leaved and have six panels, while the central doors have four panels and a plain overlight. These doors are flanked by long panels featuring paired corbelled Gothic shafts with clasping rings and foliage capitals, which support long entablature brackets topped with prominent ball finials.
The glazed bar fronts between the doors have panelled stall risers; the left side has additional panelling below the window, while the right side has lower panelling behind the window. Each window is fitted with wooden mullions. The first floor features painted wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills above four-pane sash windows. In the gable peak, there is a blind round-headed panel with a projecting stone sill. An incised sandstone plaque on the right displays the name ANNE STREET in Roman capitals, while BEACH STREET is indicated in sans serif letters on a painted plaque above. A painted wood board between the windows displays the name The Kings Arms in applied moulded letters.
The right return of the building has a similar design, with a door located under the third window, intermediate paired shafts, and entablature brackets. The name THE KINGS ARMS is applied directly in moulded letters. The fascia at the front has the names Beach Street and Anne Street painted, with Hanover Place and Farringdon Row painted on the right return. The former Anne Street has been blocked, and a new road has been laid out, altering the relationship with the two streets on the right.
Local climate
The King's Arms Public House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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