The Old Kings Arms is a Grade II listed building in the Broadland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1983. Public house.
The Old Kings Arms
- WRENN ID
- tattered-moulding-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Broadland
- Constituency
- Broadland and Fakenham MP: Jerome Mayhew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1983
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Old Kings Arms, High Street, Foulsham
- OS grid reference
- TG 031 248
- Coordinates
- 52.78329, 1.01092
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Kings Arms is an 18th-century former public house located on High Street in Foulsham. The building is double fronted and has two storeys made of colourwashed brick, topped with a black and red pantiled roof. The early 19th-century section facing the road features storey height splayed bay windows with sash windows on either side of a central half-glazed panel door, which is framed by a timber doorcase. Gable chimneystacks are present on the roof.
At the rear, there is a range dating from around 1700, which includes modillion and dentil eaves, a stringcourse, a gable chimneystack, and brick tumbling-in. This section also has two early 18th-century sash windows with glazing bars, as well as re-used 18th-century reticulated tracery windows on the rear lean-to. The interior retains original settles and other details. The history of the building is documented in Reverend Thomas Quarles' "History and Antiquities of Foulsham," published in 1842.
Local climate
The Old Kings Arms receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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