King's Arms Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1977. Hotel. 4 related planning applications.

King's Arms Hotel

WRENN ID
blind-footing-torch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 May 1977
Type
Hotel
Address
King's Arms Hotel, Main Street, Keswick, Cumberland, CA12 5BL
OS grid reference
NY 266 234
Coordinates
54.60075, -3.13753
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The King's Arms Hotel is an early 19th-century building located on Main Street in Keswick. It is three storeys tall and constructed of stuccoed stone. Number 21, which is slightly later in date, features a recessed ground floor supported by two round columns with a frieze and cornice. This section has two windows on the upper floors, divided by Victorian columns. Numbers 23 and 25 have a dentilled cornice at the top, with Victorian shop windows on the ground floor that include eleven round arches on slender piers, along with a fascia and cornice. Each upper floor of these buildings has four six-paned sash windows. The King's Arms Hotel itself has a panelled door, three sash windows on the first floor, and four sash windows on the top floor, all of which have had their glazing bars removed.

Local climate

King's Arms Hotel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
  • 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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