3, Leighton Road is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. A C17 House. 3 related planning applications.

3, Leighton Road

WRENN ID
muted-tin-soot
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Central Bedfordshire
Constituency
Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard MP: Alex Mayer (Lab)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
3, Leighton Road, Heath and Reach, LU7 0AA
OS grid reference
SP 925 280
Coordinates
51.94336, -0.65505
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No 3 on Leighton Road is a 17th-century building featuring whitewashed plaster and a rubble ground floor on the south elevation, with a weatherboarded first floor. The structure is two storeys high and has a thatched roof. It includes two three-light casements with glazing bars. On the right-hand side, there is a small 19th-century shop front and door.

Local climate

3, Leighton Road 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 1995
  • 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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