Toddington Florists is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1992. House with shop premises. 2 related planning applications.

Toddington Florists

WRENN ID
secret-gargoyle-pigeon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Central Bedfordshire
Constituency
Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 March 1992
Type
House with shop premises
Address
Toddington Florists, 62, High Street, LU5 6BY
OS grid reference
TL 009 285
Coordinates
51.94664, -0.53331
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a house that incorporates shop premises, likely dating to the 17th century, with extensions and alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries. The rear wing is timber-framed with brick infilling and has a steeply pitched roof covered in plain tiles, with gabled ends. The front range is brick, partly painted and rendered, and has a hipped roof covered in asbestos tiles. Brick stacks are located axially and to the sides.

The building's layout includes a circa 17th-century rear wing, and a front block – originally built or rebuilt in the 18th century – remodelled in the 19th century, and now housing a shop. The east front, dating from the 19th century, features a 20th-century shopfront on the ground floor and two four-pane sash windows above. The rear wing has 19th-century casement windows with glazing bars, and a brick west gable end.

Inside, the shop area has a chamfered cross-beam. The rear room of the original wing features a chamfered axial beam with step or truncated pyramid stops, now partially hidden by plaster. Surviving elements of the roof include the timber frame of the east gable end and a closed truss, the collar and lower part of the principals in the west gable end, with visible mortices, likely for wind braces. The purlins and common rafters have been replaced.

Local climate

Toddington Florists 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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  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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  • Flood risk assessment
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  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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