The Crown Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1983. Public house. 6 related planning applications.
The Crown Inn
- WRENN ID
- third-threshold-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1983
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Crown Inn, Great North Road, Wyboston, Chawston and Colesden, PE19 8EN
- OS grid reference
- TL 168 579
- Coordinates
- 52.20696, -0.29177
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Crown Inn is a public house dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. It features a colour washed rough cast exterior over a timber frame and an old clay tile roof. The building has a three-room plan and stands two storeys high. On the ground floor, there are three canted bay windows from the 19th century, while the first floor has three 2-light casement windows, all with leaded lights. The front door is set in a moulded surround and has a flat cut-bracketed hood. There is one gable end stack on the south side and one ridge stack, both made of brick and covered in colour washed rough cast. The rear of the building includes various one and two-storey additions.
Local climate
The Crown Inn sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.4°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 — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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