Queens Arms is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 July 1999. Public house. 3 related planning applications.
Queens Arms
- WRENN ID
- grim-newel-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 July 1999
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Queens Arms, Hartfield Road, Cowden, TN8 5NP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 462 425
- Coordinates
- 51.16353, 0.09091
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Queens Arms is a public house with attached outbuildings, built in the mid-19th century, with a 20th-century extension on the right. It features red brick construction with some dark brick patterning and tile-hung gables. The public house has a Welsh slate roof, while the outbuildings have red clay tile roofs. The building has end stacks and a central entrance leading to a hall with bars on either side.
The exterior of the two-storey public house consists of three bays, with a central doorway beneath a shallow segmental head. Canted bay windows flank the entrance, and on the first floor, there are three glazing bar sash windows: four over eight panes in the outer bays and three over six panes in the center bay. The side elevations have casement windows. At the rear, there is a single-storey range of outbuildings featuring a ground floor gable with a six over six pane sash window facing the public house.
Inside, the inner hall has two four-panel doors leading to the bars on the right and left, and a central door to the servery. The right-hand bar has an L-shaped counter with tongue-and-grooved diagonally-boarded panels and plain pilasters with console brackets. There is also a tongue-and-grooved boarded dado and plain fixed benches to the right of the bar counter and in the window recess. A mid-20th-century brick fireplace is present, along with beer engines dating from around 1947. The left-hand bar, which was formerly two rooms, has been joined in the mid-20th century and features a curved bar counter with inset boarded panels and a single pane of 19th-century etched glass in the right-hand light of the bay window. The Queens Arms is a little altered but remains an extremely rare example of an unpretentiously functional 19th-century rural public house, retaining much of its original fittings and plan form.
Local climate
Queens Arms receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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- 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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