20, High Street North is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 June 1984. Shop/inn. 3 related planning applications.
20, High Street North
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-glass-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard MP: Alex Mayer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 June 1984
- Type
- Shop/inn
- Address
- 20, High Street North, Dunstable, LU6 1LA
- OS grid reference
- TL 018 219
- Coordinates
- 51.88663, -0.52129
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 20 High Street North is a shop that may have originally been part of an inn, dating from around 1600. It has been extensively altered and refronted in the 19th century. The building is finished in colour-washed stucco and has a modern tiled roof, with some internal timber framing still visible. It stands three storeys tall. The second floor features three blocked windows beneath a moulded cornice and over-storey band. The first floor has a central sash window flanked by canted bays, which rest on top of a 19th-century shop front. Notably, the building is listed for its wall painting on six panels of the first-floor party wall, depicting a hunting scene with various motifs set against a verdant tapestry background. The panels, arranged from front to rear, include a small rabbit, a man smoking a pipe or blowing a hunting horn, a cock's head, a running stag, a greyhound, and the figure of a man.
Local climate
20, High Street North 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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