Old White Lion is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 May 1952. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
Old White Lion
- WRENN ID
- small-dormer-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 May 1952
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old White Lion, Bedford Road, Ravensden, MK44 2RA
- OS grid reference
- TL 065 543
- Coordinates
- 52.17755, -0.44252
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old White Lion is an early 19th-century cottage located on Bedford Road in Ravensden. It is constructed of clay lump with a colour-washed brick exterior, and has a thatched roof, hipped to the north and half-hipped to the south. The building is L-shaped and has one storey with attics. The front elevation features two eyebrow dormers with casement windows. Two ground-floor casement windows and the left-hand doorway have slightly cambered heads. A single-storey lean-to addition extends from the north wing. A central double red brick ridge stack is positioned on the front block. The building was formerly listed as the Old White Lion Inn.
Local climate
Old White Lion 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 97% 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 52% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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