Valentia Arms Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Wyre Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1987. Hotel.
Valentia Arms Hotel
- WRENN ID
- north-courtyard-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wyre Forest
- Constituency
- Wyre Forest MP: Mark Garnier (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1987
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Valentia Arms Hotel, Upper Arley
- OS grid reference
- SO 764 802
- Coordinates
- 52.41947, -2.34742
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Valentia Arms Hotel is likely a conversion of three houses into a hotel, dating from the mid-18th century, with extensions added in the early and mid-19th century, along with some late 20th-century alterations. The building features a combination of brick, sandstone ashlar stucco, and coursed sandstone rubble, topped with a tiled roof.
On the left side, the early 19th-century section has a hipped roof and stands two storeys high, with a parapet and a moulded cornice. It includes two full-height canted bay windows flanking a 2-light casement window. The central entrance is rusticated and features a 19th-century ledged and boarded door.
The central part of the hotel, which is from the 18th century, also has two storeys and two windows with glazing bar sashes beneath plastered wedge lintels. It includes a pedimented wooden doorcase with a two-leaf, six-panel door. The left section is from the mid-19th century and is gabled to the right, set back to the left, with two storeys and a total of three windows, mainly of two lights under square heads with labels. The ground floor has two three-light windows under square heads with labels, and the central entrance features a two-leaf door beneath a Tudor arch.
At the rear, the early 19th-century section reveals exposed sandstone ashlar and has a pedimented wooden doorcase with fluted pilasters.
Local climate
Valentia Arms Hotel receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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