The Friars is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1976. House.
The Friars
- WRENN ID
- under-pewter-thrush
- 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
- House
- Address
- The Friars, 82, High Street South, Dunstable
- OS grid reference
- TL 020 216
- Coordinates
- 51.88417, -0.51899
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Friars is an early 19th-century building located on the west side of High Street South. It features a front made of purple brick with red dressings and quoins, topped with a Welsh slate roof that has a moulded wood cornice. The building is two storeys high and has five double-hung sash windows set in reveals with flat arches, lacking glazing bars. A Roman Doric porch with simple details leads to an elaborate oblong fanlight above a four-panel door. At the back, there is an old tile roof.
Local climate
The Friars 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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