4, 5/6 and 7, Leighton Buzzard Road (A4146) is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1967. A C16 House. 5 related planning applications.
4, 5/6 and 7, Leighton Buzzard Road (A4146)
- WRENN ID
- silent-cinder-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- 4, 5/6 and 7, Leighton Buzzard Road (A4146), Great Gaddesden, HP1 3BH
- OS grid reference
- TL 036 106
- Coordinates
- 51.78454, -0.49874
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This property comprises three houses, formed from a house originally dating back to the 16th century or earlier. A western bay was added in the 17th century, an eastern crosswing in the late 17th or 18th century, and a northeastern extension in the 20th century. The building is timber-framed with a red brick sill and red brick infill, with rebuilding to the ground floor of the crosswing. It has steep roofs covered in old red tiles.
The original hall range was initially three bays wide, with a two-storey extension to the west and a cellar. The eastern crosswing projects prominently, and was altered in the 18th century with the insertion of a central chimney and a hip roof replacing the original front gable. The south-facing front of the hall range has irregular windows including three two-light casements on each floor and two plank doors sheltered by tiled hoods with brick steps. The crosswing's south front has two two-light windows on the first floor, and a three-light and a two-light window framing a gabled porch with rustic detailing and battened entrance doors, which lead up three steps. The rear of the crosswing is now a separate house (No. 7), with access via a single-storey northeastern extension.
The hall range’s roof features clasped purlins and curved wind braces. Within the hall bay, collar and cambered tie-beams are visible, supported by wide-spaced studs. The former western end wall displays unusually wide, cranked tension braces. The 17th-century western bay extension has curved jowl posts, straight braces to the wall plate, a clasped-purlin roof, and a gabled rear dormer.
Local climate
4, 5/6 and 7, Leighton Buzzard Road (A4146) 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 78% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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