Chew's House is a Grade II* listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. A C18 House. 6 related planning applications.
Chew's House
- WRENN ID
- hushed-postern-winter
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard MP: Alex Mayer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- Chew's House, High Street South, Dunstable, LU6 3SF
- OS grid reference
- TL 021 216
- Coordinates
- 51.88411, -0.51751
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chew's House is a circa 1715 building of brown-red brick with red dressings and quoins, situated on the east side of High Street. It has a Welsh slate roof. The building is two storeys high and features five sash windows with flat arches. The entrance has an 8-flush-panel, 2-fold door with an oblong fanlight, and a cornice hood supported by consoles. Above each console is a stone blocking course featuring a small figure of a black boy dressed in contemporary English attire, complete with a white collar and buttons. The gable end of the roof has a moulded open pediment, within the tympanum of which is a plaque containing a clock face. A tall, white-painted cupola sits astride the pediment, featuring a square drum and a circular bell turret. The building forms a group with Nos. 65 to 75 (odd) and the front walls.
Local climate
Chew's House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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