The King's Arms is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1966. Hotel. 1 related planning application.
The King's Arms
- WRENN ID
- roaming-arch-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1966
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- The King's Arms, Market Place, Reeth, Fremington and Healaugh, North Yorkshire, EH12 9JZ
- OS grid reference
- SE 037 992
- Coordinates
- 54.38905, -1.94321
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The King's Arms is a hotel built in 1734, as indicated by the datestone. It features coursed rubblestone walls and a stone slate roof, with two parallel ranges beneath an M-shaped roof. The building stands three storeys high and has four bays, with rusticated quoins. The entrance includes a six-panel door set in a stone surround, which has a pulvinated frieze and a cyma cornice, topped by the datestone inscribed with "M I E 1734". The windows are plate glass sashes, all framed in stone surrounds. The gables have coping, shaped kneelers, and there are stacks at both ends and along the ridge.
Inside, there are joggled voussoirs above the fireplace. The open-string dogleg staircase features a double arch at the bottom, supported by a column on vase balusters.
Local climate
The King's Arms receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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 — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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