Half Moon House is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1976. House. 1 related planning application.
Half Moon House
- WRENN ID
- upper-window-acorn
- 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
- House
- Address
- Half Moon House, 1, 2 and 3, London Road, Dunstable, LU6 3EA
- OS grid reference
- TL 025 210
- Coordinates
- 51.87893, -0.51114
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house dating from the 17th century or earlier, which has been altered but retains a largely complete timber frame. The front is pebbledash, topped by a steeply pitched roof covered in old tiles. There are three sash windows with glazing bars on the first floor. A pair of 19th-century bay windows flank the porch at ground level. The house is two storeys high with attics, and features a back-to-back chimney.
Local climate
Half Moon House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 12 transactions since 2000
- 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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