The Old King's Arms is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1987. Inn. 4 related planning applications.
The Old King's Arms
- WRENN ID
- slow-tower-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1987
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Old King's Arms, High Street, Potterne, SN10 5NA
- OS grid reference
- ST 994 584
- Coordinates
- 51.32541, -2.00891
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old King's Arms is an 18th-century inn that has been converted into a house. It features a red brick facade with a chequered pattern on the left side and is topped with a thatched roof, which has a ridge stack and a stack at the north end. The building is two storeys high and has three triple casements on the first floor. On the ground floor, to the left, there is a door alongside a pair of cambered-head casements. The centre section has a cambered-head 16-pane sash window, followed by a six-panel door set in a timber surround with a pediment supported by consoles. To the right, there is another cambered-head triple casement. An addition on the right side was rebuilt in the 20th century and features a plain tile roof, a five-light casement on the first floor, and two cambered-head garage doors below. The left side of the building reveals some thin timber-framing exposed at the rear.
Local climate
The Old King's Arms receives an average of 840 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 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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