Kings Arms Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 March 1970. Hotel. 5 related planning applications.
Kings Arms Hotel
- WRENN ID
- watchful-sandstone-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 March 1970
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Kings Arms Hotel, London Road, Bicester, OX26 6AH
- OS grid reference
- SP 585 223
- Coordinates
- 51.89648, -1.15007
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Kings Arms Hotel is a hotel located in Bicester Market Square, dating from the 18th century, with some parts possibly being older. The building features rendered walls with some stucco decorations and has roofs made of Welsh slate and plain tiles, along with brick chimneys. It is designed in an L-shape and consists of three storeys on one side and two storeys plus attics on the other.
The front of the building has six windows, with the main entrance located in the third bay. This entrance features a six-panel door, an ornamental overlight, and a doorcase adorned with fluted pilasters and an entablature that displays the royal arms. There is a secondary entrance in the fifth bay, which has been converted into a window. All other windows, including those in the three-bay range that returns on the left, are fitted with 12-pane sash windows. The roofs are hidden behind plain parapets.
At the rear, there is a two-window range that extends as a wing and includes a carriage entry. This section likely dates from the early 18th century and has a steeply pitched tiled roof with paired brick stacks. It features flat-headed roof dormers and Venetian windows with pilastered mullions and jambs on each side wall. Additionally, there is another steep-roofed range to the right of the main building that extends to the back of No. 39 and likely shares a 17th-century chimney stack with it. The rear of the main range has 20th-century extensions. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Kings Arms Hotel sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- 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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