The Black Lion Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1954. Public house. 1 related planning application.
The Black Lion Public House
- WRENN ID
- sombre-column-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard MP: Alex Mayer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1954
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Black Lion Public House, 20, High Street, Leighton-Linslade, LU7 1EA
- OS grid reference
- SP 919 249
- Coordinates
- 51.91579, -0.66381
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Black Lion Public House is an 18th-century building located on the south side of High Street in Leighton Buzzard. It features a front made of local bond brickwork, using grey headers with red brick dressings. The building has a steeply pitched tiled roof with two box dormers and a central chimneystack. It stands two storeys high with attics and has a dentil cornice.
The façade includes four normal-sized sash windows that are flush set with heavy glazing bars, along with one dummy window and three narrow windows (two of which are dummy), arranged in a pattern of 1:2:1:2:1. On the ground floor, there is one sash window and one canted bay window. At either end of the front, there are doorways with stone surrounds, rusticated pilasters, and cornice hoods supported by cut brackets. To the right, there is a slightly recessed wing with a tall carriageway and a rusticated stucco first floor.
Local climate
The Black Lion Public House 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 — 1 transaction since 2013
- 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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