The King's Arms Public House is a Grade II* listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 June 1948. A C17 Public house. 7 related planning applications.
The King's Arms Public House
- WRENN ID
- bitter-finial-onyx
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Hemel Hempstead MP: David Taylor (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 June 1948
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The King's Arms Public House, 41, High Street, HP1 3AF
- OS grid reference
- TL 055 078
- Coordinates
- 51.75912, -0.47164
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The King's Arms Public House is an early 17th century building located on the east side of High Street. It features a timber frame with a plaster-faced road front and deep modillioned eaves beneath a steeply tiled roof. The structure has three storeys and five windows. The ground floor has modern bay windows, while the first floor showcases an early 19th century three-light sash window. At the rear, there is a half-timbered wing with an open gallery on the first floor. The King's Arms has been known by this name since the early 17th century. The building is part of a group that includes Nos 41 to 47 (odd).
Local climate
The King's Arms Public House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 7 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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