38, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1974. House. 1 related planning application.
38, High Street
- WRENN ID
- bitter-copper-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard MP: Alex Mayer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- 38, High Street, Leighton-Linslade, LU7 1EA
- OS grid reference
- SP 920 250
- Coordinates
- 51.91606, -0.66258
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 38 High Street is an early 18th-century building featuring a front made of vitrified brick with pale red brick dressings. It has a steeply pitched tiled roof with raised verges and high plain kneelers. The building stands two storeys tall with attics and includes a first-floor band. The ground floor has two modern projecting shop windows and a central door that is sheltered by a cut bracketed hood. On the first floor, there are five sash windows set in wide frames with shallow reveals, and two hipped dormers are present in the roof. This property is part of a group with Nos. 34 to 40 (even).
Local climate
38, High Street 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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