49 and 49a, 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. 1 related planning application.
49 and 49a, High Street South
- WRENN ID
- white-dormer-harvest
- 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
- 49 and 49a, High Street South, Dunstable, LU6 3SF
- OS grid reference
- TL 020 217
- Coordinates
- 51.88457, -0.51852
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a mid-19th century building on the east side of High Street South. It is constructed of red brick with a Welsh slate roof, detailed by a bracketed dentil cornice. The building rises to two storeys and has a canted bay on the right side. It features a 1:3 arrangement of segmentally arched sash windows. A notable feature is the doorway, which has an earlier style. It contains a six-panelled door with four fielded panels, two flush panels, an oblong fanlight with curved ornamental glazing bars, a panelled reveal, pilasters, a frieze with paterae, and a cornice hood. The building is listed primarily for the quality of its doorway. Nos. 47, 47A, 49 and 49A are part of a group and are considered of local interest alongside No. 45.
Local climate
49 and 49a, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 12 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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