26, Market Square is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1975. House, shop. 2 related planning applications.
26, Market Square
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-screen-onyx
- 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
- House, shop
- Address
- 26, Market Square, Leighton-Linslade, LU7 1HE
- OS grid reference
- SP 922 250
- Coordinates
- 51.91653, -0.6607
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th or early 19th century building located on Market Square. It is constructed with a local bond of grey headers and flush red brick vertical panels. The roof is covered in Welsh slate. The building stands three storeys high and features two sash windows on each floor, with glazing bars within the reveals, and stucco surrounds. A modern shop window has been inserted at ground floor level. The building forms a group with Nos. 18 to 26 (even) and No. 18A.
Local climate
26, Market Square 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.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2004
- 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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