The King's Arms is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 1984. Public house.

The King's Arms

WRENN ID
grim-panel-ridge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
Mid Dorset and North Poole MP: Vikki Slade (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 August 1984
Type
Public house
Address
The King's Arms, Corfe Road, Arne
OS grid reference
SY 923 864
Coordinates
50.67778, -2.10923
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The King's Arms is a public house located on Arne Corfe Road, likely dating from the 18th century. The building features walls made of a combination of rubble stone, brick, and plastered cob, topped with a thatched roof and brick stacks at both ends and in the center. It has an L-shaped plan and consists of one storey with an attic. The entrance includes a ledged door with a glass panel. On the ground floor, there is one horizontally sliding sash window and one casement window, both fitted with glazing bars. The attic contains two dormers, each with horizontally sliding sashes that also have glazing bars. A projecting tiled pentice roof supported by brackets extends over the front wall. At the rear, there is a single-storey wing with rubble stone walls and a thatched roof. This wing has a 20th-century extension with brick walls and a half hipped slate roof, as well as a flat-roofed single-storey rear extension located in the angle between the two wings.

Local climate

The King's Arms 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 greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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