Whitehill is a Grade II listed building in the Luton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1975. House. 3 related planning applications.
Whitehill
- WRENN ID
- vast-wicket-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Luton
- Constituency
- Luton South and South Bedfordshire MP: Rachel Hopkins (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Whitehill, Durler Gardens, LU1 3TA
- OS grid reference
- TL 089 204
- Coordinates
- 51.87159, -0.41865
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Whitehill is a large house dating from 1869. The design is attributed to T.C. Sorby. It is constructed of plum-coloured Luton grey bricks with ashlar dressings, and has pitched tile roofs, brick stacks with battered ashlar plinths and cornicing, and coped stone gable ends on brick kneelers. The house is two storeys and attics, with a two-gabled front facing the garden. The rear elevation has various other gables. There are two one-storey bay windows on the garden front: one is canted, and the other is oblong. Similar bays are found on the south front. A recessed porch is present, above which the wall is carried up to form a parapet at eaves level. The windows are either mullioned or mullioned and transomed.
Local climate
Whitehill 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
- 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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