Kings Arms Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1974. Public house. 4 related planning applications.
Kings Arms Public House
- WRENN ID
- lost-eave-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1974
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Kings Arms Public House, 53, High Street, Church Stretton, SY6 6BY
- OS grid reference
- SO 452 935
- Coordinates
- 52.53738, -2.80821
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Kings Arms Public House is a 17th-century public house located on High Street in Church Stretton. It features a painted timber frame with painted infill panels and roughcast rendering on the front and rear bay. The building has plain-tile roofs with a single brick ridge stack and an L-shaped plan consisting of three bays, with a gable end facing the street and a bay to the right.
The exterior is two storeys high. The street front has a gable end on the left, which includes a three-light multi-pane wood casement window above a multi-pane ground-floor window. To the right, there is a 19th-century panelled door set in a pilastered frame with top lights. The right bay has a two-light wood casement window above a projecting flat-roofed multi-pane bay window. The left return side features three bays, with two bays showcasing close-studded timber framing, storey posts, girding beams, and two lower straight tension braces. Each bay has one wood casement window on each storey, while a single rendered brick bay on the left has a wood casement window at ground level. The rear of the building has 20th-century casements in the rendered gable end. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Kings Arms Public House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% 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 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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