The King's Arms is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1960. Inn.

The King's Arms

WRENN ID
former-soffit-swallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cotswold
Constituency
North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 August 1960
Type
Inn
Address
The King's Arms, High Street, Mickleton
OS grid reference
SP 160 434
Coordinates
52.08922, -1.76781
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The King's Arms is an inn that dates from the mid-17th century, with a block at the rear left, and a late 17th to early 18th-century block that runs parallel to the road. The building was rebuilt and extended to the right in the mid-18th century, and there are 20th-century additions including a flat-roofed extension at the rear and a porch at the front left that are not of listing quality.

The mid-17th-century block at the rear left is constructed from limestone rubble and features a coursed squared and dressed gable end. The late 17th to early 18th-century block has an ashlar limestone facade with a projecting plinth course for part of its length. The entire structure is topped with an artificial stone slate roof, which has flat coped gables and a roll cross finial on the left. There are four ashlar limestone stacks with moulded tops and skirtings, including one at the center of the block that runs parallel to the road.

The mid-17th-century block is two storeys high with a garret and has a former stone entrance with a 4-centred arch at the rear right, which is almost obscured by the 20th-century extensions. On the left wall facing the car park, there are 20th-century, two-light stone mullioned casements. The facade of the late 17th to early 18th-century block is also two storeys with an attic, illuminated by four 20th-century dormers from the roof, which contain 20th-century casements. The facade features a four-window arrangement with three and four-light, flat-chamfered stone mullioned casements, most of which have horizontal glazing bars and nearly all have stopped hoods above. A 20th-century plank door has been inserted under part of a window hood, located off center to the right, and there is a blocked entrance towards the left.

Local climate

The King's Arms receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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