7, New Bedford Road is a Grade II listed building in the Luton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1981. House. 1 related planning application.
7, New Bedford Road
- WRENN ID
- iron-moat-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Luton
- Constituency
- Luton South and South Bedfordshire MP: Rachel Hopkins (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- 7, New Bedford Road, LU1 1SA
- OS grid reference
- TL 089 215
- Coordinates
- 51.88146, -0.41877
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 7 New Bedford Road is a building that was originally part of an Edwardian terrace. It is constructed from Luton grey bricks with red brick dressings and features a Welsh slate roof. The building stands three storeys tall and has a parapet with cornice moulding. It includes a canted four-light bay window with a flat roof on the first and second floors, and a red brick band at the first floor level. The windows have high-level transoms, and the upper lights are adorned with stained glass depicting musical instruments. The original shop front is still intact, featuring an entrance doorway and window, with flanking piers decorated with green, brown, and yellow ceramic tiles that depict musical instruments in various groupings, presented in the form of garlanded and ribboned trophies.
Local climate
7, New Bedford Road 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1997
- 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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