38 and 40, High Street North is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1976. Commercial. 5 related planning applications.
38 and 40, High Street North
- WRENN ID
- slow-brick-crimson
- 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
- Commercial
- Address
- 38 and 40, High Street North, Dunstable, LU6 1LA
- OS grid reference
- TL 018 219
- Coordinates
- 51.88709, -0.52194
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These are two 19th-century buildings on the east side of High Street North. They are architecturally similar to numbers 32 and 34. The frontages have five sash windows, most of which retain glazing bars, set within reveals and beneath red brick flat arches. The shop fronts are modern. The buildings are included in the listing due to their contribution to the wider group value of the street. Numbers 36A and 36 to 48 (even) also form a group.
Local climate
38 and 40, High Street North 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 — 5 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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