32, George Street is a Grade II listed building in the Luton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1981. Office building. 1 related planning application.
32, George Street
- WRENN ID
- open-lantern-fern
- 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
- Office building
- Address
- 32, George Street, LU1 2AZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 091 212
- Coordinates
- 51.8787, -0.41526
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
32 George Street is a late 19th-century office building featuring a stucco exterior and a Welsh slate roof. The building has three window bays facing George Street and seven bays along Cheapside, with a rounded corner between the two facades. It stands three storeys tall and is topped with a heavy moulded modillion cornice. The second floor has double-hung sash windows that are deep set within architrave surrounds. The first floor windows are much taller, fitted with modern frames that are also deep set within similar surrounds, featuring cornice heads supported by two side brackets. A continuous cill band is visible across five bays on Cheapside. Both the first and second floors have stucco quoins at each end of the building on both elevations, while the ground floor has modern shopfronts.
Local climate
32, George 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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