51, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1954. House.
51, High Street
- WRENN ID
- open-postern-cedar
- 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
- House
- Address
- 51, High Street, Leighton-Linslade
- OS grid reference
- SP 921 250
- Coordinates
- 51.91653, -0.66207
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 51 High Street is a 13th-century building constructed with local bond brickwork featuring grey headers and red brick dressings. It has a dentil cornice and a parapet with moulded stone coping that screens the roof. The building stands three storeys tall and has three sash windows with glazing bars set in flush moulded frames, all under segmental arches. The central window arches are scalloped, and the second-floor window aprons have guttae. This property is part of a group that includes Nos. 35 to 51 (odd) and Nos. 55 to 59 (odd).
Local climate
51, High Street 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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