The King's Arms is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 May 1981. Public house. 3 related planning applications.
The King's Arms
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-loft-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1981
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The King's Arms, 103 Priory Street, Carmarthen, SA31 1NE
- OS grid reference
- SN 417 204
- Coordinates
- 51.86033, -4.29948
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The King's Arms is a public house located within a terraced row, featuring painted roughcast walls and a slate gabled roof. The eaves and ridge of the roof are lower than those of the adjacent building at No 102 but higher than those of No 104. There is a renewed brick chimney stack on the left and a larger roughcast stack on the right. The building is three storeys high with a two-window range, and the windows are widely spaced. All the windows are from the 20th century, with small square windows on the upper floor, longer windows on the first floor, and a four-panel door to the left on the ground floor, followed by a window in a former doorway and a wide 20th-century window on the right. The openings have thin raised surrounds, a thin sill band at the first floor, and a raised plinth. A 20th-century bracket for a pub sign is located at the second floor.
The interior has been altered since 1981. The 18th-century staircase, which had turned balusters and a wide handrail leading from the ground floor to the attic, was damaged by fire and has been partly rebuilt. This staircase was similar to others that were also lost in Spring Gardens since 1981. In 1981, there were exposed ceiling beams on the upper floors.
Local climate
The King's Arms sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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