King's Arms Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Windsor and Maidenhead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1955. Hotel. 12 related planning applications.

King's Arms Hotel

WRENN ID
iron-shingle-heron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Windsor and Maidenhead
Constituency
Maidenhead MP: Mr Joshua Reynolds (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 March 1955
Type
Hotel
Address
King's Arms Hotel, High Street, Cookham, SL6 9SJ
OS grid reference
SU 896 853
Coordinates
51.55971, -0.70823
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The King's Arms Hotel is a building that now serves as bars and a restaurant. It dates from the late 17th century, was rebuilt in the mid-18th century, and has been extended and altered in the late 20th century. The structure is made of painted brick and features a tile-coped gabled roof with varying heights. Originally rectangular in shape, it now has an irregular plan due to large extensions at the rear. The building is partly two storeys and partly two storeys with attics.

The road-facing front has a black painted plinth and a string course above the first-floor windows. To the left, there is a lower one-bay wing that dates from the 19th century, featuring three-light casements on both the ground and first floors with segmental arches. A half-glazed door is located on the right side of the symmetrical main section. The first floor includes two gabled dormers and three two-light casements with overlights, while the ground floor has four sash windows and a central 18th-century panelled door beneath an ornate hood with carved brackets.

Inside, there is a fine late 17th-century dog-leg staircase with four flights that runs the full height of the main section. This staircase features barley sugar balusters, heavy moulded handrails, square newels, and a closed moulded string.

Local climate

King's Arms Hotel 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 86% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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