The Kings Arms Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. Inn. 1 related planning application.

The Kings Arms Inn

WRENN ID
final-footing-lake
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 April 1961
Type
Inn
Address
The Kings Arms Inn, Bishopston, Montacute, TA15 6UU
OS grid reference
ST 496 169
Coordinates
50.95006, -2.71826
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Kings Arms Inn is an 18th-century inn that was refronted in the 19th century. It features a facade made of ham stone ashlar, with coursed rubble on the sides and rear, and a Welsh slate roof between stepped coped gables, along with brick end chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high and consists of three bays. It has hollow-chamfer mullioned windows set in chamfered recesses, with rectangular-leaded 4-centre arched lights; the first bay has four lights, the second bay has two lights, and the third bay features a projecting angled bay with a configuration of 1+4+1 lights on both levels. This third bay includes king mullions and a string course over the lower window, topped with a lead-covered flat roof. To the right of the second bay is a cambered-arched doorway with a deep label, leading up three steps to a 20th-century door, with a projecting sign above it. The rear of the building has 20th-century extensions, and the interior has been significantly altered. The inn has been known by this name since at least 1780.

Local climate

The Kings Arms Inn receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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