53, Cheapside is a Grade II listed building in the Luton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1981. Temperance tavern. 2 related planning applications.
53, Cheapside
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-jamb-hazel
- 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
- Temperance tavern
- Address
- 53, Cheapside, LU1 2HN
- OS grid reference
- TL 092 213
- Coordinates
- 51.88044, -0.4141
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 53 Cheapside was built in 1882 as the Cowper Arms, a temperance tavern. The building is constructed of brick with pebble dash and has a tiled roof. It stands three storeys high and features three bays. The facade includes a triple gable with finials, heavy plain bargeboards, shaped tiles at the apexes, and two side scroll brackets. There are three 3-light windows with moulded mullions and transoms, each with a cill. The second floor jetties out and is supported by a moulded bressumer with brackets underneath. The first floor is symmetrical, featuring two outer oriels and two inner single light windows with aprons. A cornice with a dentil course runs beneath, supporting four small pediments over the bay divisions of the ground floor. The ground floor has bay windows on the centre and right, with a door on the left side accessed by two steps, and some surviving panelling. There is a cellar with doors below the ground floor windows. The building also has decorated and dated heads for rainwater goods.
Local climate
53, Cheapside 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
- 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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