The Morley Arms Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1975. Public house.

The Morley Arms Public House

WRENN ID
sheer-slate-thistle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Plymouth
Constituency
South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 May 1975
Type
Public house
Address
The Morley Arms Public House, Laira Bridge Road, City of Plymouth
OS grid reference
SX 502 540
Coordinates
50.36761, -4.10691
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Morley Arms Public House is an early 19th-century building located on Laira Bridge Road in Plymstock, Plymouth. The front is made of Plymouth limestone ashlar and features a plinth and a mid-floor string. It has slate roofs, with a main pyramidal roof behind an ashlar parapet that includes a moulded cornice and a pediment over a central panel. There are stone end stacks and flanking hipped roofs behind ashlar parapets. The building has a double-depth plan, likely with two rooms at the front and single-storey wings on either side.

The public house is two storeys tall and has a symmetrical three-bay front with a central break and one-window flanking wings. The windows are late 19th-century horned sashes, with those in the wings featuring round-arched heads and set within recessed round-arched panels. There is a central stone porch with a moulded entablature supported by paired pilasters, and a window above the porch is blocked with a pub sign, which may be obscuring an original sash. The interior has not been inspected but may still have original features of interest.

Local climate

The Morley Arms Public House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 77% 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 92% 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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