66 and 68, Bute Street is a Grade II listed building in the Luton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1981. Commercial.
66 and 68, Bute Street
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- 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
- 66 and 68, Bute Street, LU1 2EY
- OS grid reference
- TL 092 214
- Coordinates
- 51.88114, -0.41407
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 66 and 68 on Bute Street were built in the 1870s and are constructed of red brick with a Welsh slate roof. The buildings rise three storeys and feature a plain brick parapet. On the second floor, there are three windows with gauged brick heads, including two sashes with glazing bars and one modern casement. The first floor has four windows, with two of each type. The shop fronts date from the 19th century. No 68 has a separate door and window, accompanied by a rendered stall riser, slender pilasters, and a cornice. No 66 features a more prominent four-bay ground floor with a continuous entablature and cornice, two doorways to the left, a central bay with a small arched window, and a right-hand window bay, all separated by simple pilasters.
Local climate
66 and 68, Bute 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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