Kings Arms PH is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 March 1987. House.
Kings Arms PH
- WRENN ID
- western-entrance-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swansea
- Constituency
- Swansea West MP: Torsten Bell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Kings Arms PH, 26 High Street, Castle
- OS grid reference
- SS 656 933
- Coordinates
- 51.62313, -3.94247
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Kings Arms Public House is an L-plan building dating from the 19th century. It has three storeys and features a three-window entrance front along with a long side elevation and a return gabled range at the rear. The exterior is finished in stucco and is adorned with giant Tuscan pilasters on the upper floors, a band course with an end pilaster at the ground floor, and applied half-timber decoration. The roof is slate, with a brick stack on the right side and boarded eaves, as well as a second wide stack at the rear.
The side elevation retains some original small-pane sash windows above a fine ground floor, which includes keyblocked windows and paired timber doorcases. These doorcases are complemented by fluted pilasters, a panelled entablature, and segmental pediments.
Local climate
Kings Arms PH sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% 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 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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