Numbers 13 and 15 (Front Block Only) is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 August 1979. House. 1 related planning application.
Numbers 13 and 15 (Front Block Only)
- WRENN ID
- peeling-lantern-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard MP: Alex Mayer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 August 1979
- Type
- House
- Address
- Numbers 13 and 15 (Front Block Only), Lake Street, Leighton-Linslade, LU7 1RS
- OS grid reference
- SP 922 250
- Coordinates
- 51.91623, -0.65991
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Numbers 13 and 15 is a 17th-century, two-storey and attic, L-shaped box timber-framed house that was cased in brick in the 18th century. The front elevation is stuccoed, with a shop front added around 1860-70. The original timber framing can still be seen in the roof structure, the short rear wing, the south gable end, and some interior walls, including stud partitioning. The gable end has slate roofs. The rear wing features a brick plate band, a blocked casement, and early 19th-century sash windows. The 19th-century front elevation includes a double plate glass shop front with sidelights that angle into the doorway. It has a pilaster frame with carved console brackets on either side of a boxed fascia that supports a moulded cornice. On the first floor, there are two sash windows with architrave surrounds, which are screened by a tent-shaped canopy with a limited valance, supported by a thin iron upright wing from the shop cornice. The left-hand first-floor window is a rectangular two-light wooden bay with a fretted eaves band and a pediment. Original lamps are mounted on scrolled brackets at the ends of the shop cornice.
Local climate
Numbers 13 and 15 (Front Block Only) 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
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