The Borough Arms is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1976. Pub. 2 related planning applications.
The Borough Arms
- WRENN ID
- open-brass-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard MP: Alex Mayer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1976
- Type
- Pub
- Address
- The Borough Arms, 24, Albion Street, Dunstable, LU6 1SA
- OS grid reference
- TL 016 219
- Coordinates
- 51.88671, -0.524
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Borough Arms is an early to mid 19th-century public house located at 24 Albion Street, which also includes No 2 Edward Street. The building is constructed from plum-coloured brick that is dressed with red brick, and it features a Welsh slate roof with a bracketed cornice. It stands three storeys high and has three sash windows with glazing bars set in reveals beneath flat arches, although the two upper windows have been altered to casements. The ground floor is finished in stucco and has modern lattice casements.
Local climate
The Borough Arms 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 — 7 transactions since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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