Kings Arms is a Grade II listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1986. Hotel. 1 related planning application.
Kings Arms
- WRENN ID
- patient-casement-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swindon
- Constituency
- Swindon South MP: Heidi Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1986
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Kings Arms, 20, Wood Street, South Swindon, SN1 4AB
- OS grid reference
- SU 156 837
- Coordinates
- 51.55256, -1.77578
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Kings Arms is a hotel built around 1870-1880, located on Wood Street in Swindon. It is constructed of brick with stone dressings and features a slate roof. The building is three stories high and has five bays, with a central entrance and an internal light well, showcasing a Gothic revival style. The entrance is recessed and has a segmental arch decorated with fasces. The ground floor has square stone bays with hipped roofs and corner columns. The outer bays and upper floors have paired windows with moulded and shouldered segmental heads on Decorated style columns, all beneath brick relieving arches. The facade has quoined ends, and a central chimney stack is corbelled out over the entrance on clustered columns, with royal arms displayed at the second floor level. Each bay is topped with a gablet that features a carved roundel. Inside, the reception rooms have decorated plaster ceilings.
Local climate
Kings Arms receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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