The Cross Keys Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1975. Inn. 4 related planning applications.
The Cross Keys Inn
- WRENN ID
- grim-panel-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard MP: Alex Mayer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 May 1975
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Cross Keys Inn, 35, Market Square (North Island Site), Leighton-Linslade, LU7 1EU
- OS grid reference
- SP 921 250
- Coordinates
- 51.91659, -0.66147
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cross Keys Inn is a building from 1899, designed in a modified Carolean style. It is constructed of red brick and features a slated roof with a bracketed cornice. The building has segmentally pedimented dormers and a segmentally headed gable on the west side. It stands two storeys tall with attics and includes a first-floor band. The windows are sash style, with elliptically arched windows on the ground floor and flat arches on the first floor. The central doorway is adorned with Corinthian pilasters and a broken segmental pediment.
Local climate
The Cross Keys Inn sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- 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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