48 High Street South is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1976. House. 2 related planning applications.
48 High Street South
- WRENN ID
- spare-zinc-snow
- 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
- 48 High Street South, Dunstable, LU6 3HD
- OS grid reference
- TL 019 217
- Coordinates
- 51.88483, -0.52007
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
48 High Street South is a late 17th-century house that underwent changes to its street frontage in the 18th century and features a 19th-century shop front. The building is made of brick, topped with a red plain tiled roof and red brick chimneys. It has a rectilinear plan with extensions at the rear.
The exterior consists of two storeys, with a ground floor shop bay window. At the first floor, there are four sash windows and a parapet. The prominent 19th-century ground floor shop bay window includes a door on the right, which is framed by a doorcase featuring Doric pilasters and an entablature with a modillion cornice.
Local climate
48 High Street South 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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- 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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