The Red Lion Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1975. Public house. 1 related planning application.
The Red Lion Public House
- WRENN ID
- narrow-lead-furze
- 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
- Public house
- Address
- The Red Lion Public House, 1, North Street, Leighton-Linslade, LU7 1EF
- OS grid reference
- SP 921 251
- Coordinates
- 51.91703, -0.66118
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Red Lion Public House is an 18th-century building located on North Street in Leighton Buzzard. It features a front constructed in local bond with vitrified headers and has an old tiled roof with a red brick cornice. The building is two storeys high and has three flush sash windows with glazing bars. On the ground floor, there is a two-light window on the left, which is situated under a cambered relieving arch, and a canted bay window on the right that displays chequered red and grey brickwork. The entrance consists of a four-fielded panelled door set within an architrave surround, topped by a coved hood. To the right, there is a taller one-window wing that includes a carriageway and a Welsh slated roof. The Red Lion Public House is part of a group that includes Nos 1 to 9 (odd).
Local climate
The Red Lion Public House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- 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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