King's Arms Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1979. Cottages.
King's Arms Cottages
- WRENN ID
- stony-corbel-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Normanton and Hemsworth MP: Jon Trickett (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 July 1979
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- King's Arms Cottages, 3, Heath Common, Warmfield Cum Heath
- OS grid reference
- SE 356 199
- Coordinates
- 53.67488, -1.46217
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
King's Arms Cottages is a row of cottages, now functioning as a single dwelling, dating from the early 17th century. The building underwent alterations around 1725 and in the early 19th century. It is constructed of hammer-dressed stone, with some brick at the rear, and features an internal timbered arcade leading to a rear outshut from an earlier 17th-century house. The roof is covered with stone slates.
Originally designed as a three-cell through-passage plan, it was converted into three single-cell cottages in the early 19th century. The structure is two storeys tall and has three first-floor windows. There is a single-storey outshut at the rear of the second and third cells, with quoins visible on the exterior. The first two cells feature 19th-century fenestration, including paired doorways with deep monolithic lintels, flanked by windows that also have deep lintels and projecting sills, retaining Yorkshire sash windows with small-pane glazing. The third cell has 18th-century fenestration, characterized by a doorway with tie-stone jambs and a shallow-arched lintel, which is initialled and dated "A" to the left of the right window. This cell also has a three-light mullioned window with overlapping lintels and flat-faced mullions with inner chamfers, along with a similar window above it.
There are brick stacks on the left gable and another at the junction of the second and third cells. At the rear, the outshut includes a doorway with a monolithic lintel and four bays of 20th-century windows with concrete lintels and sills, along with an added two-storey brick bay to the right.
Inside, the structure features posts on padstones, straight braces to the arcade plate and tie beam, and a raised roof supported by soft-wood fish-bone king-post trusses with separate tie beams.
Local climate
King's Arms Cottages receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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