King William IV Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1962. Public house. 4 related planning applications.
King William IV Public House
- WRENN ID
- still-gateway-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- Bedford MP: Mohammad Yasin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1962
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- King William IV Public House, High Street, Kempston, MK42 7AL
- OS grid reference
- TL 025 473
- Coordinates
- 52.11531, -0.50414
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The King William IV Public House is a public house dating from around 1600. It features a timber frame with colourwashed brick infill and has a clay tile roof. The building is L-shaped and has two storeys, with a left-hand projecting wing that has a lower roofline than the main block. There is a one-storey and attic two-bay additional block at the left gable end, also timber framed and finished with colourwashed roughcast.
The front elevation includes two windows on the ground floor and three on the first floor of the main block, along with two windows on the ground floor and one in a gabled dormer in the attic of the lower block. A 20th-century lean-to porch is situated at the angle to the left, featuring a modern door with a flat hood between two windows. There is a rebuilt red brick multiple stack at the junction with the projecting wing, a red brick stack at the junction with the lower east block, and an integral red brick stack on the east gable end of the lower east block. The rear of the building has various 20th-century additions.
Local climate
King William IV 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 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 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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