Former White Horse Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1978. Inn. 3 related planning applications.
Former White Horse Inn
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-vestry-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1978
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- Former White Horse Inn, 1, 1a and 1b, High Street, Biggleswade, SG18 0JE
- OS grid reference
- TL 188 446
- Coordinates
- 52.08715, -0.26627
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former White Horse Inn is a building dating from the 17th century or early 18th century. It is two stories tall and features a clay tile roof. The first floor is covered in colourwashed roughcast, while the ground floor is made of brick. On the first floor, there are four modern three-light casement windows. The left side of the ground floor has a canted bay window, a six-panel door with a flat hood, a small sash window with a cambered head, and a three-light casement window with a bracketed cornice. There is also a modern door with sidelights and a cornice.
Local climate
Former White Horse Inn 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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