Carpenters Arms is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. Public house. 2 related planning applications.

Carpenters Arms

WRENN ID
vacant-clay-curlew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Aylesbury MP: Laura Kyrke-Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Public house
Address
Carpenters Arms, 1 Horton Road, Slapton, LU7 9DB
OS grid reference
SP 934 207
Coordinates
51.87768, -0.64405
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Carpenters Arms is a public house dating to the 17th century, with alterations made in the early 19th century. The first floor retains a timber frame with brick infill, while the ground floor was rebuilt in the early 19th century using red and vitreous brick. The roof is thatched, with a half-hipped section to the left and a hipped section to the right, covering a single-story extension. A central brick chimney has been rebuilt.

The original building comprises two bays. The left bay features a three-light horizontal-sliding sash window to the ground floor. The right bay has paired wooden casements and a gabled, 20th-century porch projection to the right. A 20th-century door is centrally positioned.

An extension to the right incorporates paired casement windows similar to those of the original building. The road-facing gable has a two-light horizontal-sliding sash window to the first floor, a canted oriel window below, and an angled lean-to to the left, incorporating a door and barred window. A small, later wing to the rear creates a T-plan layout and has a timber frame with a tiled roof. The first floor of the older bays was likely once jettied.

Records suggest the building was recorded in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments volume II, pages 265-6.

Local climate

Carpenters Arms sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 12 transactions since 1999
  • 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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