Inn · Woodstock
The King's Arms
A Fuller's inn with 15 rooms on the corner of Market Street, Woodstock, in a Grade II listed building, with dogs welcome and breakfast included.
Dog-friendly · Car-free
Fifteen rooms in the middle of town, breakfast included, and the dog can come too. Reception is staffed until 11pm, so a late arrival is easy.
- Good: Breakfast included in the room price
- Good: Dogs £20 per stay, in the bar and garden too
- Good: Food every day, all afternoon at weekends
- Worth knowing: Dog rooms are limited; confirm before booking
- Worth knowing: Only limited street parking
- Worth knowing: No dogs in the main dining areas
About
The King's Arms is a Fuller's inn on the corner of Market Street in Woodstock. The inn says it was the Corner House in the 1500s, then the Compasses, and took its present name in 1795. The building is listed Grade II: Historic England dates the stuccoed front to about 1840, with earlier origins, and limestone rubble walling survives at the back.
There are 15 rooms, newly decorated and varying in size with the old building, from cosy doubles to a suite where a double sofa can be made up for an extra charge; two rooms have twin beds. Breakfast is included. Check-in is from 3pm to 9.30pm and check-out by 11am, and reception is staffed from 7am to 11pm. Dogs are welcome in a limited number of rooms for £20 a stay (£10 for a second dog, two at most), and on a lead in the bar and garden, but not the main dining rooms; tell the inn before you book, and do not leave a dog alone in the room. Accessible rooms can be arranged by calling. Children under two in a cot stay free, and an extra bed for a child of two to 12 is £35 a night with breakfast. The flexible rate can be cancelled free until midday the day before arrival; the advance rate is non-refundable, and the hotel does not take cash.
The pub serves seasonal dishes and pub classics with cask ales, and a roast on Sundays: lunch and dinner on weekdays, food all afternoon at weekends.
There is no car park, only limited parking in the street, but the S3 bus from Oxford stops in the town. Blenheim Palace is a few minutes' walk, and the Woodstock town walk passes the door.
Opening hours and season
Closed, opens Mon 9, 07:30
| Mon | Opening | Food served | Reception |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday | 07:30 to 22:30 | 12:00 to 15:00, 17:00 to 21:00 | 07:00 to 23:00 |
| Tuesday | 07:30 to 23:00 | 12:00 to 15:00, 17:00 to 21:00 | 07:00 to 23:00 |
| Wednesday | 07:30 to 23:00 | 12:00 to 15:00, 17:00 to 21:00 | 07:00 to 23:00 |
| Thursday | 07:30 to 23:00 | 12:00 to 15:00, 17:00 to 21:00 | 07:00 to 23:00 |
| Friday | 07:30 to 23:00 | 12:00 to 15:00, 17:00 to 21:00 | 07:00 to 23:00 |
| Saturday | 08:00 to 23:00 | 12:00 to 21:00 | 07:00 to 23:00 |
| Sunday | 08:00 to 22:30 | 12:00 to 20:00 | 07:00 to 23:00 |
The details
- Food
- Pub classics · Modern British
- Serving
- Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner · Sunday lunch
- Rooms
- 15
- Check-in
- 3pm to 9.30pm
- Check-out
- By 11am
- Features
- Restaurant · Bar · Garden or terrace · Real ale · Dogs in rooms · Dogs inside · Accessible rooms
- History
- The King's Arms since 1795; the inn traces it to the Corner House of the 1500s
- Parking
- No car park; limited street parking on Oxford Street and Market Street.
- Without a car
- Stagecoach S3 from Oxford (stand R5) stops in Woodstock; Oxford is the nearest main station.
Photos
The dining room 
A bedroom 
Breakfast 
The bar
Location
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- The Feathers 0.0 km away
- The Woodstock Arms 0.0 km away
- The Star Inn 0.1 km away
- The Crown, Woodstock 0.1 km away
Sights nearby
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Column of Victory, Blenheim
Sight · Monument · Woodstock
The Column of Victory is the fluted Doric column of 1727 to 1730 that carries a lead statue of the first Duke of Marlborough dressed as a Roman general on the high ground of Blenheim's park. Seen from Woodstock and the park's public paths.
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St Mary Magdalene, Woodstock
Sight · Church · Woodstock
St Mary Magdalene is Woodstock's church on Park Street, founded with the twelfth-century town and long a chapel of Bladon, with a Norman zigzag doorway, a classical tower of 1784 to 1786 with chimes of 1792 made to play tunes, and a sundial with odd numerals. Grade II*.
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Woodstock Town Hall
Sight · Historic building · Woodstock
Woodstock Town Hall in the Market Place was designed by Sir William Chambers and built in 1766 to 1767 at the Duke of Marlborough's expense, over an open market hall enclosed in 1898, with a marble sundial on its south wall. Grade II.
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Queen Pool, Blenheim
Sight · Lake · Woodstock
Queen Pool is the northern arm of the lake Capability Brown made at Blenheim from 1764, above Vanbrugh's Grand Bridge, with Rosamund's Well just west of the bridge and the Column of Victory above. Reached free on public footpaths from Combe; the lakeside road is permissive.