The Old White Horse is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1952. Hotel, farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
The Old White Horse
- WRENN ID
- outer-span-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard MP: Alex Mayer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1952
- Type
- Hotel, farmhouse
- Address
- The Old White Horse, Watling Street, Hockliffe, LU7 9LP
- OS grid reference
- SP 973 267
- Coordinates
- 51.93055, -0.58536
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old White Horse is a late 17th century building located on the north-east side of Watling Street in Hockliffe. It is constructed of grey brick with red brick dressings and has two storeys topped with a clay tile roof. The building features projecting gabled wings at either end; the right-hand wing has two sash windows with glazing bars, while the left-hand wing has one sash window. There is a right-hand carriageway, and a modern round-arched window is present on the right side.
Local climate
The Old White Horse 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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