Cart Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. Almshouses.
Cart Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- buried-keep-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard MP: Alex Mayer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1951
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- Cart Almshouses, 65-75, High Street South, Dunstable, LU6 3SF
- OS grid reference
- TL 021 216
- Coordinates
- 51.8842, -0.51778
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cart Almshouses, built around 1723, are located on the east side of High Street South, numbered 65 to 75 (odd). The building features grey brick with red brick dressings and has an old tiled roof that is set behind a parapet. It is two storeys high and has two double light wood mullioned casement windows for each number, with the windows grouped in fours. The doorways are set in lairs and feature six fielded panelled doors. The Cart Almshouses, along with Chew's House and the front walls, form a cohesive group.
Local climate
Cart Almshouses sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 — 2 transactions since 2006
- No related consent applications matched
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