Assembly Hall at the Cedars School is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1954. Assembly hall.

Assembly Hall at the Cedars School

WRENN ID
worn-roof-nettle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Central Bedfordshire
Constituency
Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard MP: Alex Mayer (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 May 1954
Type
Assembly hall
Address
Assembly Hall at the Cedars School, Bridge Street, Leighton-Linslade
OS grid reference
SP 918 250
Coordinates
51.91604, -0.66624
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Assembly Hall at The Cedars School is a building from the late 17th century or early 18th century. It features chequered red vitreous brickwork with red brick dressings. The old tiled roof has a west gable with raised verges. The exterior consists of four bays, each containing two sash windows set between pilasters. There is a plinth and a brick cornice moulding. On the west side elevation, there is a central short dummy window flanked by tall sash windows, with a square window above in the gable end. Inside, the hall has partly exposed roof trusses, with eight bays between tie beams, featuring King and Queen posts supporting the collar beams.

Local climate

Assembly Hall at the Cedars School 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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