The Rose Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1971. A Georgian Public house. 3 related planning applications.

The Rose Inn

WRENN ID
rooted-plaster-gold
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bedford
Constituency
Bedford MP: Mohammad Yasin (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 May 1971
Type
Public house
Period
Georgian
Address
The Rose Inn, 45 High Street, MK40 1RY
OS grid reference
TL 050 497
Coordinates
52.13611, -0.46623
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Rose Inn is a former coaching inn that was built in the 17th century or earlier and was re-fronted around 1835. It now operates as a public house.

The building has a long rectangular shape and faces west towards High Street. It stands three storeys tall and is two bays wide, featuring a pitched roof covered with Welsh slate and oversailing eaves that continue with the adjacent building at number 43 to the south. The front elevation, which was updated around 1835, is finished in stucco with plain quoins. A carriageway at the south end leads to Rose Yard.

The first and second floors are fitted with casement windows, likely replaced in the late 19th or early 20th century, and feature shallow curved stuccowork beneath the sills. The first-floor windows each have a shallow awning. The ground floor includes a tripartite sash window that replaced a mullioned and transomed window in the late 20th century. Inside the passageway, a former door opening was converted into a sash window in the late 20th century. The ground floor also has a plain corniced fascia, with glazed tiles added around 2018.

Local climate

The Rose 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 95% 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, more than 54% 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 0.3°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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
  • Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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