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. 3 related planning applications.
King's Arms Hotel
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-threshold-briar
- 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, A66, Temple Sowerby, CA10 1SB
- OS grid reference
- NY 611 271
- Coordinates
- 54.63781, -2.60406
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The King's Arms Hotel is a former inn and attached house dating from the 18th century, with later additions and alterations. The original inn, located to the east, is constructed of ashlar stone and features a chamfered plinth and rusticated quoins. It has a lintel band above the ground floor windows. The roof is made of graduated slate and includes stone coping, a kneeler, and a chimney at the east end, along with a stone mid chimney. The building stands two storeys high and has five bays.
To the left of the centre, there is an original door with a pedimented architrave, while a similar doorcase to the right of centre has been moved to the house and replaced by a window in the 20th century. The remaining door is flanked by a single sash window on either side, and there are two additional sash windows above, all featuring glazing bars except for the left ground floor window. On the right side, there are paired sash windows with glazing bars on each floor.
To the west, there is a two-storey, three-bay house with an incised stucco front. The graduated slate roof was raised in the 20th century, and two gabled dormers were added, along with stone end chimneys. The central door was replaced by a window when the current door was created, and the former inn doorcase has been repurposed as a shallow porch. The house retains two original sash windows on the ground floor and three on the first floor, all with glazing bars.
Local climate
King's Arms Hotel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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