The Kings Arms is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1953. Inn. 2 related planning applications.
The Kings Arms
- WRENN ID
- lesser-casement-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1953
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Kings Arms, Church Street, Amesbury, SP4 7EU
- OS grid reference
- SU 153 414
- Coordinates
- 51.17201, -1.78216
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Kings Arms is a mid-18th century inn located on Church Street in Amesbury. It is constructed of painted brick and features a tiled roof. The building stands two storeys tall with an attic and has four bays. Notable architectural details include a plat band and brick dentilled eaves. The entrance is located in the third bay, featuring a half-glazed door with a moulded flat canopy above it. The windows are early 19th century four-paned sashes with wide boxes, and there is a canted 19th-century bay window on the right bay. The roof has four hipped dormers that do not have glazing bars. There is a four-flue stack opposite the door, with a secondary stack added to the left gable end. The rear of the building has various additions, and the roof is half hipped. Inside, there is a large open fireplace with a timber lintel and a fireplace with a bolection moulded surround. The roof structure features a five bay butt purlin design.
Local climate
The Kings Arms receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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