Hoddesden Villas is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1975. House. 3 related planning applications.
Hoddesden Villas
- WRENN ID
- sombre-obsidian-acorn
- 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
- Hoddesden Villas, 1-10, Lake Street, Leighton-Linslade, LU7 1RT
- OS grid reference
- SP 923 249
- Coordinates
- 51.91508, -0.65919
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hoddesden Villas is a pair of symmetrical houses built in the early to mid 19th century, now converted into 10 flats. They are constructed from yellow brick with stucco dressings and feature a channelled stucco ground floor. The hipped tiled roof has a bracketed cornice. The buildings rise to three storeys and have a layout of 2:2:2 sash windows, with round-headed windows on the ground floor and segmental-headed windows on the upper floors. The corners are accentuated with rusticated quoins. The fine six-panelled doors, with two central circular panels, are set in round arched porches that flank an elliptically arched carriageway with a keyblock. Nos 26 to 30 (even) are part of a group that includes the Public Library.
Local climate
Hoddesden Villas 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 — 4 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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