57 and 59, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 April 1954. Commercial. 4 related planning applications.
57 and 59, High Street
- WRENN ID
- long-terrace-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard MP: Alex Mayer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 April 1954
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- 57 and 59, High Street, Leighton-Linslade, LU7 1DN
- OS grid reference
- SP 921 250
- Coordinates
- 51.91672, -0.66195
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 57 and 59 High Street are 18th-century buildings located in Leighton Buzzard. They feature local bond brickwork made of grey headers with red bricks. The structures rise three storeys and are topped with a moulded cornice and a parapet that screens the roof. Each upper floor has five windows set in shallow reveals beneath flat arches, including four double light mullion and transom casements, as well as one dummy window. The ground floor has modern shop windows. Nos 57 and 59 are part of a group that includes Nos 1 to 11 (odd) and No 11A Market Square.
Local climate
57 and 59, High 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 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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