Clifton Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1966. Farmhouse. 6 related planning applications.
Clifton Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-step-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1966
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Clifton Farmhouse, Church Street, SG17 5EX
- OS grid reference
- TL 167 394
- Coordinates
- 52.04086, -0.29924
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Clifton Farmhouse is an early 17th century house. It is timber framed with red brick infill, largely covered with pebbledash render. The roofs are tiled with clay. The house has an H-plan, with a left-hand cross-wing slightly lower than the rest. Most of the windows are from the 19th century, although a two-light horizontal sash window is present on the first floor of the central block. The central block features a six-panel door, with the upper pair of panels glazed, set within a moulded surround and a gabled hood. A substantial red brick ridge stack is visible on the central block, with a three-stage brick stack on the side elevation of the left-hand cross-wing. A single-storeyed outbuilding projects from the north wing, and a lean-to conservatory is attached to the main block on the rear elevation.
Local climate
Clifton Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 8 transactions since 1996
- 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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