Barn to West of Number 37 is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1996. Barn, watermill. 1 related planning application.
Barn to West of Number 37
- WRENN ID
- burning-storey-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard MP: Alex Mayer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1996
- Type
- Barn, watermill
- Address
- Barn to West of Number 37, Leighton-Linslade, LU7 2LQ
- OS grid reference
- SP 905 245
- Coordinates
- 51.91245, -0.6848
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a combined barn and watermill located to the west of Number 37 in Southcott Village. The barn likely dates from the 18th century, while the watermill was added to the western end during the early 19th century. It features a timber frame and weatherboarding on a brick ground floor, with brick extensions on the east and north sides. The roof is partly covered with slate and partly with synthetic tiles. The heavy timber frame includes two sets of purlins, with queen struts supporting the lower purlins, and straight braces.
At ground level, there is a wheel-pit formed by an internal brick wall that extends the full height of the plinth, and a small rear gable is situated above the wheel pit. The south elevation displays a loading door, a bricked-up culvert, and windows with wooden surrounds, along with brick diagonal buttresses. Some machinery remains inside, along with trap-doors, ladders, and grain bins.
Local climate
Barn to West of Number 37 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2004
- 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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