The Crown Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1966. Public house. 1 related planning application.
The Crown Public House
- WRENN ID
- seventh-pillar-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1966
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Crown Public House, Ickwell Road, Northill, SG18 9AA
- OS grid reference
- TL 148 465
- Coordinates
- 52.10499, -0.32383
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Crown Public House dates from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. It is a public house of an L-shaped plan, constructed using a mix of timber framing with colourwashed roughcast, and brick with colourwashed render. The roof is covered in clay tiles. The southwestern block is the oldest part, dating to the 17th century, augmented in the 18th century and sits at a slightly lower level than the front block, which is 19th century. The ground floor of the southwest block has a single 3-light casement window, two 19th-century canted bay windows framing a plank front door, a 2-light casement window, and a single-light window. The first floor has two 2-light casement windows. All windows have glazing bars, although some are 20th-century replacements. The front block features two 20th-century sash windows on the ground floor flanking a doorway with a moulded surround, a flat hood, and a 20th-century glazed door. Two 20th-century replacement windows are on the first floor. The left-hand gable of the southwest block has four 20th-century casement windows on the ground floor and one 3-light casement window on the first floor. All windows display glazing bars. There are two rebuilt red brick ridge stacks, the left-hand one serving back-to-back hearths. An external red brick stack is located at the north gable end.
Local climate
The Crown 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 — 5 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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