Ye Olde Plough Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1983. Public house. 7 related planning applications.
Ye Olde Plough Public House
- WRENN ID
- floating-banister-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 August 1983
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Ye Olde Plough Public House, Kimbolton Road, Bolnhurst and Keysoe, MK44 2EX
- OS grid reference
- TL 087 586
- Coordinates
- 52.21549, -0.40963
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ye Olde Plough Public House is a 17th-century public house located on Kimbolton Road in Bolnhurst. The building features colour washed rough cast over a timber frame and has an old clay tile roof. It is designed in a T-plan and consists of one storey with attics. The projecting gable includes a three-light casement window on the ground floor and a two-light horizontal sash window in the attic, both of which have glazing bars. The main block has a 20th-century door aligned with a red brick double ridge stack, a small casement window above the door, and two-light casements on both floors to the right of the door. There is a lean-to weatherboarded extension on the north gable end and a single storey extension on the south gable end.
Local climate
Ye Olde Plough Public House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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