Crown Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1978. Hotel. 7 related planning applications.
Crown Hotel
- WRENN ID
- shifting-slate-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1978
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Crown Hotel, High Street, Biggleswade, SG18 0JL
- OS grid reference
- TL 189 446
- Coordinates
- 52.08705, -0.26475
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Crown Hotel, dating from the late 18th century, is located on the north side of High Street. It is a two-storey building with attics, finished in colourwashed roughcast. The roof is a modern tile gambrel style with gable end coping and features six box dormers. The hotel has eight sash windows, with no glazing bars on the ground floor. The entrance includes an open pedimented wooden doorcase and a carriage arch on the right side. Adjacent to the hotel, No 25 has two windows and features a 19th-century shop front on the ground floor.
Local climate
Crown Hotel 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 2000
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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