The Kings Arms is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. Inn. 2 related planning applications.
The Kings Arms
- WRENN ID
- lost-paling-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Kings Arms, the Street, Didmarton, GL9 1DT
- OS grid reference
- ST 818 874
- Coordinates
- 51.58561, -2.26363
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The King's Arms is an inn dating from the early 18th century. It features a rendered front on a cemented plinth with a rubble stone core and a slate roof. The building has three rebuilt stone stacks at the ends and a ridge stack, as well as a gable end stone stack at the rear. It consists of a large single main range with three rear wings, standing two storeys tall with an attic. The front is symmetrical and may have been remodelled, highlighted by a small central gable. There are five windows, which are 19th-century four-pane sashes set in plain painted surrounds. The ground floor has four similar windows, and the central entrance features a beaded painted stone doorcase with an original six-panel door that is covered in a flush panel at the front. Above the door is a very large flat stone hood supported by scrolled wooden brackets. The building also has four gabled dormers, likely from the 19th century, on the eaves, each with single 4-pane lights. The rear has similar window arrangements and a small blind moulded roundel in the attic on the left-hand return, which was formerly rendered. Inside, the inn retains some original panelling, window shutters, and some stop-chamfered beams.
Local climate
The Kings Arms receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2023
- 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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