Heath Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1975. House. 1 related planning application.
Heath Lodge
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-timber-sparrow
- 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
- House
- Address
- Heath Lodge, Heath Road, Leighton-Linslade, LU7 3AU
- OS grid reference
- SP 924 270
- Coordinates
- 51.9346, -0.6565
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Heath Lodge is a mid-19th century detached house located on Heath Road in Leighton Buzzard. The building features stucco and some color-washed brickwork, topped with a Welsh slate roof. It stands two stories tall and is distinguished by four tall Doric columns that support two pediments. The central entrance has a Doric porch with a cast iron balcony railing above it. On the first floor, there is an elliptically arched recess with an arched French window. The house has two sash windows with glazing bars, and the first-floor windows are framed with architrave surrounds. The ground floor windows are adorned with pilasters and entablatures.
Local climate
Heath Lodge 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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