Luton Hoo Garden Centre is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 October 1980. Garden centre.
Luton Hoo Garden Centre
- WRENN ID
- muted-panel-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Luton South and South Bedfordshire MP: Rachel Hopkins (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 October 1980
- Type
- Garden centre
- Address
- Luton Hoo Garden Centre, Hyde
- OS grid reference
- TL 102 179
- Coordinates
- 51.84913, -0.4002
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Luton Hoo Garden Centre is a Grade II listed structure located in the Luton Hoo Estate. It consists of greenhouses and a garden centre situated within half of an octagonal walled garden that features a central diaphragm wall. The greenhouses are arranged around three sides of the garden, with long greenhouses on the left and right sides against the wall, both featuring a central gabled porch with petalled glazing bars in the gable. The central block replaces the wall and includes the main greenhouse. Flanking the garden centre are two 19th-century houses made of brick, each two stories tall; one has a slated roof while the other is covered with modern tiles. The houses have three first-floor casements with glazing bars and cambered heads, as well as two ground-floor canted bays and a central gabled porch. A wrought iron gate faces the main greenhouse block.
Local climate
Luton Hoo Garden Centre 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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