40, High Street 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.
40, High Street
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- 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
- 40, High Street, Leighton-Linslade, LU7 1EA
- OS grid reference
- SP 920 250
- Coordinates
- 51.9161, -0.66248
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
40 High Street is an early 18th-century building constructed in local bond using grey headers dressed with red brick. It features an old tiled roof with a hipped dormer. The building has two storeys and attics, with three first-floor sash windows that have glazing bars set in wide frames, all positioned under flat arches. The ground floor includes a three-light bay window and a plain doorway that is sheltered by a continuous hood. To the right, there is a tall carriageway with a small window located above it. This property, along with Nos 34 to 40, forms a group.
Local climate
40, High Street 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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