Kensworth House is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 April 1952. House. 2 related planning applications.
Kensworth House
- WRENN ID
- drifting-newel-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Luton South and South Bedfordshire MP: Rachel Hopkins (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 April 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Kensworth House, LU6 3QZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 043 185
- Coordinates
- 51.85579, -0.48643
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kensworth House is a late 19th-century building featuring roughcast exterior. The main block is two storeys high with a hipped Welsh slate roof. To the right, there is a one-storey extension that has a half-hipped roof. The ground floor is adorned with five full-height sash windows that have fine glazing bars, and there is a decorative band on the first floor. The entrance porch is supported by columns and has a decorated canopy. On the left side and part of the rear of the main block, there is an open verandah with wooden tracery. Inside, the house includes a staircase and some windows that are believed to have been taken from a house in Baling where Queen Victoria lived as a child.
Local climate
Kensworth House 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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