The King's Arms Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1974. Hotel. 3 related planning applications.
The King's Arms Hotel
- WRENN ID
- fading-hammer-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 August 1974
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- The King's Arms Hotel, Coppice Hill, Bradford-On-Avon, BA15 1JT
- OS grid reference
- ST 826 610
- Coordinates
- 51.34789, -2.25025
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The King's Arms Hotel is an important corner building dating from the 18th century, located on Coppice Hill with its gable end facing Silver Street. The exterior is finished in ashlar, painted on the ground floor and gable end. The hotel has three storeys plus an attic in the south gable, topped by a slated mansard roof that is half-hipped to the south and features a stone chimney stack on the north side. There is a string course above the ground floor.
On the Coppice Hill side, there are three windows: a pair to the left and a single window to the right, all of which are sash windows with some intact glazing bars. The first-floor window to the right has decorative ironwork in the form of a balconette, while a larger balcony serves a pair of first-floor windows facing Silver Street. The entrance consists of a plain rectangular doorway.
The King's Arms extends up Coppice Hill, where it is joined by a two-storey 17th-century building of lower elevation, constructed from coursed rubble with a pantiled roof. This building features two pairs of lights on the first floor with stone mullions (both sashes and casements) beneath a continuous weather-moulding. There is another continuous weather-moulding above the ground floor, which has one pair of lights with a wooden mullion and three doors, one of which is a double set in the centre.
The King's Arms Hotel is part of a group that includes Nos 3 to 8 (consecutive) The Shambles, Nos 2, 5 and 6 Coppice Hill, Nos 27 to 29 (consecutive) Silver Street, and No 2 Kingston Road.
Local climate
The King's Arms Hotel receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- Related listed building consents — 3 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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