Fire Station is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1975. Fire station. 7 related planning applications.
Fire Station
- WRENN ID
- fossil-spire-cream
- 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
- Fire station
- Address
- Fire Station, Market Square (South Island Site), Leighton-Linslade, LU7 1EU
- OS grid reference
- SP 921 250
- Coordinates
- 51.9165, -0.66114
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a fire station, dated 1919. It is constructed of red brick with a tiled roof, gabled to the west. The south elevation is two storeys high and features seven casement windows beneath pointed arches on the first floor, and seven pointed arched panels containing windows and doors on the ground floor. The west front has a wide, elliptical arched doorway. A much-worn stone statue is positioned on the left-hand side.
Local climate
Fire Station 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 2008
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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