Barclays Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1975. Bank. 7 related planning applications.
Barclays Bank
- WRENN ID
- fallen-niche-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard MP: Alex Mayer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 May 1975
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- Barclays Bank, 2, Market Square, Leighton-Linslade, LU7 1HA
- OS grid reference
- SP 921 250
- Coordinates
- 51.91621, -0.66153
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Barclays Bank, located at Market Square in Leighton Buzzard, was built in 1866 by Alfred Waterhouse in the Gothic style. The building is constructed of Bath stone and features a Welsh slated roof with three dormer windows. It has two storeys and attics. The ground floor showcases five large cusped pointed arches, with a central doorway flanked by windows. These arches are supported by moulded responds and colonnettes with stiff leaf capitals. On the first floor, there are five pairs of rectangular windows, with colonnettes dividing each pair. The eaves cornice is supported by brackets and is decorated with leaf carving. The building also has stone chimney stacks. It was originally built for the local bank, Basset & Co. Barclays Bank is part of a group with Nos 2 to 6 (even) and No 50 High Street.
Local climate
Barclays Bank 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 — 7 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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