The Old Crown is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 July 1964. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Crown
- WRENN ID
- tall-spindle-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 July 1964
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Crown, High Street, Great Barford, MK44 3LE
- OS grid reference
- TL 128 523
- Coordinates
- 52.15789, -0.35231
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Crown is a house dating to the 17th century, originally the Crown Inn. It is constructed with a timber frame and rough cast rendering, set beneath an old clay tile roof. The building follows a T-plan, with a main block and a projecting cross-wing. The front features a door with a gabled hood supported by cut brackets, and a three-light casement window with glazing bars. The cross-wing has a 19th-century canted bay window on the ground floor and a two-light casement window to the attic floor. A red brick double ridge stack is located on the main block. The roof is characterised by four bands of fishscale tiles. A lean-to addition is present on the east gable end, and other later additions are visible at the rear, all constructed from colour-washed brick.
Local climate
The Old Crown 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 — 1 transaction since 2012
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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