King's Arms Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1968. Hotel. 1 related planning application.
King's Arms Hotel
- WRENN ID
- solemn-foundation-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1968
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- King's Arms Hotel, Market Street, Kirkby Stephen, CA17 4QN
- OS grid reference
- NY 775 086
- Coordinates
- 54.47301, -2.34838
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The King's Arms Hotel is a hotel built in the late 18th century or early 19th century, with later alterations. It features rendered rubble construction and chamfered quoins at the south end. The roof is made of graduated slate, hipped to the south, with a stone chimney at the north end. The building has three storeys and six bays.
To the right of the panelled door with a rectangular fanlight, there are three sashes with glazing bars. To the left, there is a single bow window with glazing bars and a single 16-paned sash. A Tuscan porch above the door supports a two-storey projecting bay window. Each upper floor has three sashes with glazing bars, all of which have stone surrounds. A large painted inn sign is attached to the middle of the upper wall, and there are pavement gratings leading to the cellarage.
Inside, the hotel retains panelled doors within reeded doorcases throughout. The staircase features squared wooden balusters on a cut string with scrolled tread-ends. The landing has a Corinthian cornice, and a small saucer-dome with diagonal ribs is supported by thin fluted columns, which are said to be remnants of an 18th-century powder closet.
Local climate
King's Arms Hotel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2025
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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