Main Building of the Cedars School is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1975. School building. 3 related planning applications.
Main Building of the Cedars School
- WRENN ID
- cold-cobalt-wagtail
- 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
- School building
- Address
- Main Building of the Cedars School, 2, Church Square, Leighton-Linslade, LU7 1EX
- OS grid reference
- SP 919 249
- Coordinates
- 51.91573, -0.66508
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The main building of The Cedars School, constructed in 1855 by W C Reed, is designed in a restrained Italianate style. It features yellow brick with stone dressings and a hipped Welsh slate roof adorned with a modillioned cornice. The building stands three storeys high and includes chamfered quoins and a first-floor sill band. There are seven sash windows with moulded surrounds on the ground and first floors. The ground floor has modillioned cornices supported by consoles, while the first floor features a central segmental pediment also on consoles. The upper floors have a central grouping of three windows, flanked by one normal-width window and two narrower windows. The central entrance includes a door and two windows on either side, all set in surrounds with Corinthian half columns and pilasters. To the north, there is a lower two-storey recessed wing with a single-storey addition in front. The building is part of a group with Nos 2 to 14 (even).
Local climate
Main Building of 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 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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