Buxton House is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1975. A C19 House.
Buxton House
- WRENN ID
- wild-quartz-sunrise
- 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
- House
- Address
- Buxton House, 3, Church Road, Leighton-Linslade
- OS grid reference
- SP 914 249
- Coordinates
- 51.91558, -0.67242
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Buxton House is a building dating from around 1830 to 1840, designed in the Neoclassical style. It is constructed of red brick with stucco dressings and features a hipped concrete pantiled roof with paired bracketed eaves cornice. The building stands two storeys high and has three sash windows with glazing bars, each framed by architrave surrounds and ground floor cornices supported on consoles. The entrance consists of a four-panelled door topped by a rectangular fanlight, all set within a surround that is also under a cornice supported by consoles, flanking a panelled frieze.
Local climate
Buxton House 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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