Royal Naval Arms is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 November 1998. Public house.
Royal Naval Arms
- WRENN ID
- pale-vault-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Plymouth
- Constituency
- Plymouth Sutton and Devonport MP: Luke Pollard (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 November 1998
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Royal Naval Arms, Saltash Road, City of Plymouth
- OS grid reference
- SX 451 566
- Coordinates
- 50.3894, -4.17999
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Royal Naval Arms is a public house located on Saltash Road in Devonport, dating from the late 19th century. The building features glazed ceramic tiles on the ground floor and stucco on the first floor, topped with a dry slate roof adorned with red crested clay ridge tiles and brick end stacks. It has a double-depth plan and stands two storeys tall with a four-window range. The first floor retains original four-pane horned sash windows. The ground floor showcases an original polychrome ceramic tile shopfront, which includes a panelled stall riser and columns that separate moulded and keyed round-arched openings. These openings contain two pairs of windows and a doorway on the left and right, with decorated spandrels between the arches, as well as transomed windows and overlights featuring leaded glazing. The interior has been remodelled in the 20th century. The building is notable for its exceptionally well-designed and complete tiled frontage and it forms part of a fine group of listed buildings at HMS Drake.
Local climate
Royal Naval Arms sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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