The Kings Arms Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1986. Public house. 3 related planning applications.
The Kings Arms Hotel
- WRENN ID
- late-vault-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1986
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Kings Arms Hotel, West Street, Chipping Norton, OX7 5AA
- OS grid reference
- SP 313 269
- Coordinates
- 51.93999, -1.54588
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Kings Arms Hotel is a public house located on West Street in Chipping Norton. It dates back to the 17th century but was refronted in the late 18th century. The building is constructed of coursed and squared rubblestone, with some dressed stone quoining, and features a steeply pitched slate roof with end brick stacks, one of which has a moulded stone base. The hotel has an L-shaped plan at the corner of two roads and consists of two storeys and an attic, with a four-window range.
Above the eaves line, there are two segmental-headed dormers with 2-pane casements. The upper windows are 12-pane sashes, while the ground floor windows are also sashed and are linked by a flush ashlar string course. The entrance features a double, glazed and battened 20th-century door located in the third bay from the left. A side wing at an angle has similar sashed windows on the ground and first floors, with a 2-light wooden casement above; however, these windows are not original, unlike those facing West Street.
Local climate
The Kings Arms Hotel receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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