The Old King's Arms is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. Pub.
The Old King's Arms
- WRENN ID
- broken-bronze-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1971
- Type
- Pub
- Address
- The Old King's Arms, 7, George Street
- OS grid reference
- TL 145 071
- Coordinates
- 51.75138, -0.34204
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old King's Arms, located at 1 George Street, is a 16th-century building that stands two storeys high and features two windows. It is timber framed and has a high-pitched tiled roof with a moulded wood eaves cornice. The building displays thick timbers and diagonal braces supporting the overhanging first floor, which has broad, exposed beam ends. The sash windows from the 18th century include glazing bars set in a projecting box frame, while the space between the timbers is filled with roughcast. The ground floor was renewed in the late 19th century, featuring small-paned windows and glazed tiles in the door jambs. The Old King's Arms is part of a group that includes Nos 1 to 7 on George Street.
Local climate
The Old King's Arms sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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