5, Icknield Street is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1976. Residential.
5, Icknield Street
- WRENN ID
- high-copper-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard MP: Alex Mayer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1976
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- 5, Icknield Street, Dunstable
- OS grid reference
- TL 016 217
- Coordinates
- 51.8847, -0.52427
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 5 Icknield Street is an early to mid 19th-century building that has been altered over time. It is constructed of plum-coloured brick and features a Welsh slate roof with an eaves cornice. The building stands three storeys high with a basement. On the ground floor, there is a later 19th-century canted bay window. The recessed doorway and the upper floor windows are designed with flat arches. The first floor has sash windows, while the second floor features casement windows. This property is included for its group value, as it is part of a collection of buildings numbered 1 to 7 (odd).
Local climate
5, Icknield Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 — 6 transactions since 2013
- No related consent applications matched
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