King's Arms Hotel, 15 High Street, Lochmaben is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. Hotel.

King's Arms Hotel, 15 High Street, Lochmaben

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
3 August 1971
Type
Hotel
OS grid reference
NY 081 825
Coordinates
55.12871, -3.44144
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The King's Arms Hotel, located at 15 High Street in Lochmaben, is a hotel building that likely dates from the mid-19th century and underwent alterations in 1912. It features two low storeys and three asymmetrical bays, although it is spaced for four. The exterior is harled with painted ashlar margins.

At the ground level, there are two doors and two windows, with the public bar situated on the left and the main hotel entrance located in the inner bay. The windows are sash style throughout, with plate glass on the ground floor and a four-pane glazing pattern on the first floor. A sign reading 'King's Arms Hotel' is set into the wall. The building has straight skews, corniced end stacks, and is roofed with uniform slates. Additionally, there is a long plain rear wing.

Local climate

King's Arms Hotel, 15 High Street, Lochmaben sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 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 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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