Kingsbury Court Old Palace Lodge Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1976. Hotel. 9 related planning applications.
Kingsbury Court Old Palace Lodge Hotel
- WRENN ID
- narrow-steel-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard MP: Alex Mayer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1976
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Kingsbury Court Old Palace Lodge Hotel, Church Street, Dunstable, LU5 4RT
- OS grid reference
- TL 021 219
- Coordinates
- 51.88701, -0.51754
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kingsbury Court, also known as the Old Palace Lodge Hotel, is a late 18th-century building. It is constructed of grey brick with red and grey brick dressings and quoins, topped with a hipped Welsh slated roof. The building has two storeys and features three sash windows. There are red and grey brick bands at the first floor and cornice levels. To the right, there is a lower four-window wing, and at the far right, an end gable with two windows. Kingsbury Court and Old Palace Lodge Hotel, along with The Norman King Public House, form a notable group.
Local climate
Kingsbury Court Old Palace Lodge Hotel sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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