The Old King's Arms is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 July 1981. Inn.
The Old King's Arms
- WRENN ID
- eastward-sentry-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Constituency
- Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1981
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Old King's Arms, 13 Main Street, Pembroke
- OS grid reference
- SM 983 015
- Coordinates
- 51.676, -4.91794
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Old King's Arms is an inn that features a painted roughcast exterior, a close-eaved slate roof, and renewed red brick end stacks. The building stands three storeys high with a cellar and has a four-window range. It dates from the later 19th century, showcasing 4-pane horned sash windows on the upper floors, with smaller windows on the top floor. Notably, there is a large canted oriel window in the second bay of the first floor, which has 2-4-2-pane sashes, a modillion cornice, and a panelled base.
On the ground floor, from left to right, there is a large 20th-century 24-pane sash window, a doorway with a large 2-pane overlight and a pair of 20th-century doors, another large later 19th-century window with two lights, a column mullion, and basket-arched shaped heads featuring 20th-century small-pane glazing. To the extreme right, there is a blocked square-headed passageway with a large 20th-century small-paned window.
At the rear, there is a long range of attached wings that likely date from the 18th or 19th century, although they have undergone out-of-character restoration in the late 20th century.
Inside, the ground floor has been altered. In the rear left, there is a wooden open well staircase in the Chinese Chippendale style, featuring balustrades on three flights leading up to a landing, closed string, ramped rails, and square newels. The front of the first floor has four squared beams. There is also a short rear wing with a narrow gabled roof that has exposed rafters internally and a vaulted cellar to the southwest, noted in 1981 but not available for inspection.
Local climate
The Old King's Arms sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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