64, Bute Street is a Grade II listed building in the Luton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1981. Hat factory. 6 related planning applications.
64, Bute Street
- WRENN ID
- pitched-wattle-primrose
- 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
- Hat factory
- Address
- 64, Bute Street, LU1 2EY
- OS grid reference
- TL 092 214
- Coordinates
- 51.88109, -0.41415
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
64 Bute Street is a hat factory built in 1889, designed in a decorative neo-Jacobean style. The building is constructed from Luton grey bricks with stone dressings and features a Welsh slate roof. It stands three storeys high with a three-bay facade, which has pilasters at the corners and separating the central bay. Above the central bay is a pediment that includes a roundel edged in stone. The pediment is stone-coped and flanked by pilasters, with a decorated moulded brick panel below. The eaves and cornice are adorned with dentils.
On the second floor, the outer bay windows are casements set within architrave surrounds. The central bay features a pair of windows with semi-circular arched heads in a stone surround, along with a cill band. The first-floor windows maintain a similar style, with the outer two comprising three lights each, while the center window has two lights. These windows have stone surrounds with mullions and high-level transoms. Above them, there is a decorated panel featuring a cartouche and swags of flowers beneath a shallow brick and stone arch.
The ground floor includes a prominent central entrance flanked by two windows and a secondary doorway on the left. This section is topped by a continuous entablature and dentil cornice. The doorway itself is highlighted by a segmental pediment, and each architectural element is separated by Corinthian pilasters that mimic marble. The ground floor also features brick stall risers with arched openings leading to the cellar.
Local climate
64, 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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- Related listed building consents — 6 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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