12, Market Square is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1975. Shop, house. 3 related planning applications.
12, Market Square
- WRENN ID
- long-hall-ochre
- 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
- Shop, house
- Address
- 12, Market Square, Leighton-Linslade, LU7 1EY
- OS grid reference
- SP 922 250
- Coordinates
- 51.91622, -0.66088
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 12 Market Square is a building from the 19th century that features a stucco front, although it is believed to be an earlier structure from the 16th or early 17th century. The building has two storeys and a tiled roof. It includes a modern shop window on the ground floor and a canted bay sash window on the first floor. The side elevation reveals exposed timber framework, with the first floor oversailing.
Local climate
12, 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.
- No sale records on file
- 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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