5a and 7, North Street is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1975. Shops.
5a and 7, North Street
- WRENN ID
- lunar-gable-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard MP: Alex Mayer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 May 1975
- Type
- Shops
- Address
- 5a and 7, North Street, Leighton-Linslade
- OS grid reference
- SP 921 251
- Coordinates
- 51.91723, -0.66116
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 5A and 7 on North Street in Leighton Buzzard are mid-19th century buildings constructed of yellow brick with a Welsh slated roof. The two-storey facade features a recessed section on the left, which includes a ground floor carriageway. On the first floor, there are two segmentally arched sash windows with marginal glazing bars, framed by architrave surrounds. The building is topped with a bracketed cornice. There is also a slightly altered 19th-century canted bay shop window. Nos. 1 to 9 (odd) form a group.
Local climate
5a and 7, North 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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