2-8, Castle Street is a Grade II listed building in the Luton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1981. Commercial. 3 related planning applications.
2-8, Castle Street
- WRENN ID
- lesser-footing-river
- 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
- 2-8, Castle Street, LU1 3AA
- OS grid reference
- TL 092 210
- Coordinates
- 51.87745, -0.41487
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 2 to 8 on Castle Street is a mid-19th century building featuring a late Victorian shop front. It is constructed of Luton grey brick and has a hipped Welsh slate roof. The building stands three storeys tall and has a panelled eaves cornice. The facade is five bays wide and two bays deep. The first and second floors each have five double-hung sash windows with glazing bars and gauged brick heads. Additionally, the first floor includes a carved out niche at the south-east corner, which is cement rendered, situated above a typical Luton corner doorway.
Local climate
2-8, Castle 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 — 3 transactions since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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