16, Market Square is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1975. Commercial.
16, Market Square
- WRENN ID
- quiet-gargoyle-sage
- 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
- Commercial
- Address
- 16, Market Square, Leighton-Linslade
- OS grid reference
- SP 922 250
- Coordinates
- 51.91622, -0.66073
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 16 Market Square is an early 19th-century building featuring a stucco front and a Welsh slated roof behind a parapet. It stands three storeys tall and has two sash windows with glazing bars, which are set in architrave surrounds. The first-floor windows have cornices supported by consoles, and there is a 19th-century shop front. No 16 is part of a group with Nos 2 to 6 (even) and 6A Lake Street.
Local climate
16, Market Square 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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