37-51, North Street is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1975. A C17 Almshouse. 6 related planning applications.
37-51, North Street
- WRENN ID
- worn-copper-magpie
- 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
- Almshouse
- Address
- 37-51, North Street, Leighton-Linslade
- OS grid reference
- SP 922 252
- Coordinates
- 51.91857, -0.66067
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These are a row of almshouses located on North Street in Leighton Buzzard, originally built in 1630 and rebuilt in 1857. The rebuilding incorporated 17th-century inscribed stone panels. The building is constructed of yellow brick with stone dressings, and has a tiled roof. It is in a Tudor style, with two storeys and eight flush lattice casement windows. The ground floor windows have three lights, while the first-floor windows have two lights, each set under a gable. The right end wall is of rubble and has two additional stone panels. Nos 37 to 51 form a group.
Local climate
37-51, North Street 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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