Kings Arms Public House is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1997. Public house.

Kings Arms Public House

WRENN ID
cold-railing-juniper
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 October 1997
Type
Public house
Address
Kings Arms Public House, 23, Brentgovel Street, Bury St. Edmunds
OS grid reference
TL 854 643
Coordinates
52.24619, 0.71443
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The King's Arms Public House is a public house located on Brentgovel Street in Bury St Edmunds. It dates back to the 17th century, with some alterations made in the 19th century. The building features a timber-framed structure that is encased in 19th-century brick, which is now painted. The roof is covered with old plain tiles.

The exterior of the building is two storeys high and includes cellars, with a T-shaped layout and a long rear range. On the upper storey, there are three sash windows, each with a single vertical bar in the lights, set in heavy cased frames with shallow reveals, flat cement arches, and stone sills. The ground storey has three similar but larger windows and one narrower sash window without glazing bars. There are two doorways with moulded surrounds that have half-glazed double doors. The west gable features pierced and fluted barge-boards. The rear range is rendered and has a shallow-pitched roof.

Inside, the cellars extend beneath the entire rear range. The main beams and wall plates are exposed on the upper storey of the front range. The rear range is divided into two sections, with the half adjoining the front originally being lower. The lower wall plate is visible along the east wall, showing a barefaced dovetail halving for a former tie-beam.

Local climate

Kings Arms Public House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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