26, Lake Street is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1975. House. 5 related planning applications.
26, Lake Street
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-beam-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard MP: Alex Mayer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 May 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- 26, Lake Street, Leighton-Linslade, LU7 1RX
- OS grid reference
- SP 923 249
- Coordinates
- 51.91529, -0.65923
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
26 Lake Street is an early 19th-century building made of red brick with a Welsh slate roof and a cornice. It has two storeys and features a recessed wing on the left side. The facade includes a 1:3 window arrangement, with sash windows set in reveals and fitted with louvered shutters, all topped with flat arches. On the first floor, there is a dummy window on the right, and a central four-panel door, with two glazed panels, framed by a reeded surround that includes a frieze and cornice. The windows have glazing bars, except for the lower halves of the ground floor windows. This building is included for its group value with Nos 26 to 30, which form a group with the Public Library.
Local climate
26, Lake 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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