26 High Street South is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1976. House.
26 High Street South
- WRENN ID
- sheer-cloister-hazel
- 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
- House
- Address
- 26 High Street South, Dunstable, LU6 3HA
- OS grid reference
- TL 019 217
- Coordinates
- 51.88545, -0.52056
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
26 High Street South is a timber-framed building that dates back to the 17th century or earlier. It was refronted in the 19th century and features a shop front from the 20th century. The building is rendered and topped with a plain clay tile roof.
It has a rectangular plan, with the front roof ridge running perpendicular to the street and the rear roof ridge parallel to it. The structure is terraced and consists of two storeys plus an attic. The gable end serves as the main elevation and is rendered. The ground floor features a late-20th century shop front, while the upper floors have 20th century sash windows on both the first floor and attic. At the attic level, there are cast-iron hopper heads and pattress plates.
Local climate
26 High Street South 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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