48, Watling Street is a Grade II listed building in the Milton Keynes local planning authority area, England. Public house. 3 related planning applications.

48, Watling Street

WRENN ID
dark-keystone-marsh
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Milton Keynes
Constituency
Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Public house
Address
48, Watling Street, Bletchley and Fenny Stratford, MK2 2BY
OS grid reference
SP 882 341
Coordinates
51.99896, -0.71653
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Chequers Public House, located at 48 Watling Street in Fenny Stratford, is an early recasing of a 17th-century building. It stands two storeys tall and is constructed of painted brick. The building features a gable end slate roof and a gutter cornice. It is raised on a stucco plinth and has a cellar. The façade includes two windows with flush framed glazing bar sashes; a tripartite window is located to the left on the ground floor, while to the right is a small rectangular pent-roof bay window that includes a cellar hatch. The entrance consists of a panelled and glazed door topped with a bracketed cornice hood, accessed by four steps.

Local climate

48, Watling Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2023
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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