Clifton House is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1983. Villa. 2 related planning applications.
Clifton House
- WRENN ID
- idle-foundation-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Bradford West MP: Naz Shah (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1983
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Clifton House, 2, Clifton Villas, BD8 7BY
- OS grid reference
- SE 156 344
- Coordinates
- 53.80575, -1.76322
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Clifton House is a substantial villa built around 1855-1860. It stands two storeys high and is constructed of ashlar sandstone, featuring chamfered quoins at the breaks in elevation on either side of the center. The building has a plinth, a sill band, and modillion brackets on the bed mould leading to a moulded eaves cornice, topped with a hipped slate roof and tall corniced chimneys.
On the first floor, there are three windows set in architrave surrounds with plain narrow aprons. The ground floor includes a pilastered canted bay window. The central entrance features a porch screen with two pairs of Doric columns and an entablature with consoles above each column, leading up to a cornice. Above this, there is a balustrade with a linked circle pattern and anthemion capped dies.
The east return front has five windows and a later link to a detached billiard room, which features a tripartite window with divides capped by consoles to the cornice and grooved quoin pilasters rising to a bracketed eaves cornice. The west front also has five windows, with bracketed ashlar balconette bases on the first floor, and the ground floor architrave surrounds extend down to include riser panels. Clifton House is part of a cul-de-sac of villas set in well-wooded gardens.
Local climate
Clifton House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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 — 2 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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