Kings Arms Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1979. Public house. 1 related planning application.
Kings Arms Public House
- WRENN ID
- peeling-forge-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1979
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Kings Arms Public House, London Road, Sandy, SG19 1HA
- OS grid reference
- TL 165 493
- Coordinates
- 52.13054, -0.29921
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The King's Arms Public House is a 17th-century building located on the west side of Sandy London Road. It features a whitewashed roughcast exterior on a timber frame and stands two stories tall beneath an old clay tile roof. The ground floor has two canted bay windows from the 19th century and a flat door hood. There is a central chimney stack and an additional stack on the left-hand gable end. At the rear, there is a one-story wing, along with a modern one-story extension on the right side.
Local climate
Kings Arms Public House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2025
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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