16-20, West Street is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1976. Commercial building.
16-20, West Street
- WRENN ID
- narrow-newel-acorn
- 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
- Commercial building
- Address
- 16-20, West Street, Dunstable, LU6 1SX
- OS grid reference
- TL 018 218
- Coordinates
- 51.88574, -0.52223
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 16 to 20 on West Street are a row of buildings dating from the early 18th century. The front has been altered with the addition of 19th-century shop fronts. The buildings are constructed with a timber frame and feature an old tiled roof with a wooden eaves cornice. There are six sash windows on the first floor. At the back, there is a red brick massive chimney stack that has two round arched panels. Nos 12 and 14A, along with Nos 16 to 20, form a group.
Local climate
16-20, West Street 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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