Red Lion Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1978. A C17 Public house. 6 related planning applications.
Red Lion Public House
- WRENN ID
- young-facade-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1978
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Red Lion Public House, 1, London Road, Biggleswade, SG18 8ED
- OS grid reference
- TL 193 446
- Coordinates
- 52.08702, -0.25939
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Red Lion Public House is a 17th-century timber-framed building located on the north-east side of London Road. The exterior features 19th-century mock timber-framing and roughcast. It has an L-shaped plan and stands two storeys tall, topped with an old clay tile roof. On the first floor, there are three casement windows with glazing bars, with the central window being a three-light design. The ground floor includes two canted bay windows and a flat bracketed door hood.
Local climate
Red Lion 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 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.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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