Axe and Compasses Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. Public house.
Axe and Compasses Public House
- WRENN ID
- wild-gable-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard MP: Alex Mayer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Axe and Compasses Public House, 23, Leighton Road, Heath and Reach
- OS grid reference
- SP 925 278
- Coordinates
- 51.94175, -0.65497
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Axe and Compasses Public House is an 18th-century building located on Leighton Road in Heath and Reach. It features a roughcast exterior and stands two storeys high, topped with an old clay tile roof. The facade includes three sash windows along with three dummy windows, and on the ground floor, there are two bay windows from the 19th century. The building also has one door hood from the 18th century and another from the 19th century, both supported by cut brackets.
Local climate
Axe and Compasses Public House 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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