The Kings Arms Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. Inn. 4 related planning applications.

The Kings Arms Hotel

WRENN ID
grey-rubblework-honey
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
Country
England
Type
Inn
Address
The Kings Arms Hotel, Market Place, Melksham, SN12 6EX
OS grid reference
ST 904 636
Coordinates
51.37192, -2.13808
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Kings Arms Hotel is an inn that dates from the 18th to early 19th century. It features an L-shaped plan, with the left wing having an ashlar and Welsh slate mansard roof, while the right part has a rubblestone and stone slate hipped roof. The right section is from the early 18th century and has its main entrance on the left side, facing the street. It is two stories high with three windows. There is a wooden portico supported by columns, and the first floor has four-pane sash windows. The building has a moulded eaves cornice. The street-facing side on the right has a central door flanked by paired 12-pane sash windows, with three additional 12-pane sashes on the first floor and a continuation of the moulded eaves cornice. There are two hipped dormers with casement windows.

The left wing, built in the late 18th century, is two stories with an attic and has three windows. The door on the left features a semi-circular arched head with a keystone and imposts, and to the right are three pairs of 12-pane sashes set in beaded cases with a mullion. There is a plat band at the first floor level, with a central sash window flanked by pairs of sashes. The mansard roof has three flat-roofed dormers with sash windows. Attached to the left is a single-storey rubblestone wing that has a pair of 12-pane sashes, which are 20th-century insertions, and a carriage entry leading to the stable block at the rear left. At the back, there are attached wings made of rubblestone and ashlar with 20th-century windows, and the main range features projecting chimney stacks on the rubblestone rear. The interior has been altered.

Local climate

The Kings Arms Hotel receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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