6, Market Square is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1954. Commercial building. 2 related planning applications.
6, Market Square
- WRENN ID
- lesser-steeple-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard MP: Alex Mayer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1954
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 6, Market Square, Leighton-Linslade, LU7 1EY
- OS grid reference
- SP 921 250
- Coordinates
- 51.91624, -0.66129
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 6 Market Square is a 13th-century building featuring a local bond front made of vitreous headers with red brick dressings. It stands three storeys tall and has a parapet with moulded stone coping that screens the roof. The façade includes six sash windows with glazing bars, which are flush set in moulded frames and positioned under flat arches. The second floor has sunk window aprons and three blind windows filled with chequer brick, while the first floor has two similar blind windows. The 19th-century shop front is adorned with Corinthian pilasters and a bay window. Numbers 2 to 6 (even) form a group with Number 50 High Street.
Local climate
6, Market Square 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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