Library at the Cedars School is a Grade II* listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1954. Library.
Library at the Cedars School
- WRENN ID
- silver-steeple-wren
- 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
- Library
- Address
- Library at the Cedars School, Bridge Street, Leighton-Linslade
- OS grid reference
- SP 918 249
- Coordinates
- 51.91563, -0.66611
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Library at The Cedars School is a Grade II* listed building located on Bridge Street in Leighton Buzzard. This former music room of the Prebendal House dates from the early 18th century and features a square plan with a careful design. The building is constructed in local bond using vitreous headers, with red brick dressings and a hipped roof covered in Welsh slate. It is a single-storey structure that boasts a tetrastyle Roman Doric portico made of stone, complete with a pediment.
The façade includes two sash windows on each front, which have glazing bars and are set under flat arches with fluted keystones. The building is further enhanced by chamfered ashlar quoins and a moulded cornice, with a parapet on the south elevation. Inside, there is a coved vaulted ceiling adorned with a modillion cornice, and the square centre features intricate scroll and foliage patterns in panels. A carved chimneypiece adds to the interior's decorative elements.
Local climate
Library at the Cedars School 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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