23-27, King Street is a Grade II listed building in the Luton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1981. Commercial. 4 related planning applications.
23-27, King Street
- WRENN ID
- gentle-gable-rain
- 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
- Commercial
- Address
- 23-27, King Street, LU1 2DW
- OS grid reference
- TL 090 211
- Coordinates
- 51.87838, -0.41725
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 23 to 27 on King Street were built around the 1860s. They are constructed from Luton grey bricks and topped with a Welsh slate roof. The building features deep eaves with a decorated plaster cornice panel. On the second floor, there are six pairs of arched windows, each framed with architrave surrounds, Corinthian pilasters, and bracketed cills. The first floor has six larger pairs of windows, each consisting of two arched lights with pilasters in arched surrounds that include keystones. Above the windows, the panels are adorned with flower scrolls. The ground floor has been modernized for office use.
Local climate
23-27, King Street 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 — 2 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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