The Old Sugar Loaf Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. Inn. 3 related planning applications.
The Old Sugar Loaf Inn
- WRENN ID
- proud-quartz-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
- Inn
- Address
- The Old Sugar Loaf Inn, 46, High Street North, Dunstable, LU6 1LA
- OS grid reference
- TL 018 220
- Coordinates
- 51.88754, -0.52203
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Sugar Loaf Inn, located at No. 46 High Street North, dates from around 1717, as indicated by the rainwater heads. The building is slightly altered and constructed from brown-red brick with red quoins and dressings. It features a Welsh slate roof adorned with a carefully carved wooden modillion cornice. The inn stands five storeys tall and has eight double-hung sash windows with flat arches; the lower halves of the windows do not have glazing bars. There are bands on the first floor, and an early 19th-century Roman Doric porch extends over the pavement. The inn occupies a prominent site and is part of a group that includes Nos 36A and 36 to 48 (even).
Local climate
The Old Sugar Loaf Inn 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 — 1 transaction since 2016
- 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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