4, Leighton Street is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1987. A C17 House.

4, Leighton Street

WRENN ID
shifting-corbel-solstice
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Central Bedfordshire
Constituency
Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 March 1987
Type
House
Address
4, Leighton Street, Woburn
OS grid reference
SP 948 330
Coordinates
51.98821, -0.62036
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No 4 Leighton Street is a house that features an 18th-century refronting of an earlier building, likely from the 17th century. The structure is built with vitrified header bond brickwork and red brick dressings, and it may contain a timber-framed core. The roof is tiled and dates from the 20th century.

The house has a three-bay plan and stands two storeys tall with attics. The fenestration is somewhat irregular. On the ground floor, there are two sash windows with glazing bars, which are set beneath slightly cambered gauged brick heads. To the right, there is an early 19th-century canted bay window that contains sashes with glazing bars and moulded frames. The first floor features four sash windows with glazing bars, along with a blind window on the right side. The frames of the sashes are nearly flush with the wall.

In the attic, there is a small hipped dormer. A blocked doorway is located between the two left-hand bays, while a doorway between the two right-hand bays is accessed by two stone steps. This doorway has a six-panelled door with a moulded surround, topped by a flat bracketed hood, and aligns with a red brick double ridge stack. At the right end of the house, there is a plank door that is topped by a wooden trellis grille within a moulded surround, leading to a passageway at the rear of the property.

Local climate

4, Leighton Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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