The Kings Arms Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1973. Public house. 7 related planning applications.
The Kings Arms Public House
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-flagstone-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1973
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Kings Arms Public House, Bleke Street, Shaftesbury, SP7 8JZ
- OS grid reference
- ST 861 231
- Coordinates
- 51.00713, -2.19825
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Kings Arms Public House is a building dating from the 18th century to the early 19th century, located on Bleke Street. It is two storeys high and features two windows. The roof is modern and covered with tiles, while the front is made of stone rubble. The building has two-light casement windows, with the upper windows having small panes. There is a double wooden boarded door set in a frame. At the south-west end, there is a later 19th-century building that is part of the same block as the British Legion Club. This later building is also two storeys high, has two windows, and features a slate gabled roof with an ashlar front. The glazing bars are missing, and the fenestration below has been altered. There is a large carriage entrance on the right side. The Kings Arms is listed as Grade II due to its 18th and 19th-century work at the northern end.
Local climate
The Kings Arms Public House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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