40a, Guildford Street is a Grade II listed building in the Luton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1981. Factory. 1 related planning application.

40a, Guildford Street

WRENN ID
distant-parapet-jackdaw
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
Factory
Address
40a, Guildford Street, LU1 2EP
OS grid reference
TL 092 214
Coordinates
51.88116, -0.41487
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

40A Guildford Street is a late 19th-century factory building. It is constructed of red brick with yellow brick detailing and features a rusticated stucco ground floor topped by a Welsh slate roof. The building stands three storeys high and has five window bays. Yellow brick quoins are present on the first and second floors, as well as between the second and third bays from the left. The first-floor windows are casement style, set within architrave surrounds and topped with cornices supported by consoles. The ground floor has a cornice that highlights the rustication, with three arched windows above square-headed doors and one large arched doorway. A horizontal band runs along the full length of the ground floor rustication at the springing of the arches for the openings.

Local climate

40a, Guildford 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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