Little Acres is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. A C17 House.

Little Acres

WRENN ID
burning-step-hawthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Central Bedfordshire
Constituency
Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard MP: Alex Mayer (Lab)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Little Acres, Leighton Road, Heath and Reach, LU7 0AA
OS grid reference
SP 925 278
Coordinates
51.9417, -0.65542
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Little Acres is a 17th-century building constructed with a timber frame and red brick nogging. It stands two storeys high and features an old clay tile roof. The gable end facing the road has one Yorkshire casement window. The south elevation includes three modern lattice casements and a modern porch.

Local climate

Little Acres 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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