Building Adjoining to South Sorrento is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1973. House.
Building Adjoining to South Sorrento
- WRENN ID
- sunken-hinge-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Building Adjoining to South Sorrento, SG17 5EW
- OS grid reference
- TL 163 390
- Coordinates
- 52.03754, -0.30511
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a row of houses located on Clifton Grange Street, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, with the southern end having been much restored in the 20th century. The buildings are timber framed, featuring red brick infill on the southern building and colourwashed roughcast render on the northern side. They have clay tile roofs and a five-room plan across two storeys.
Nos. 3 and 5 each have two 2-light casement windows on both floors, with no. 3 featuring diamond leading and no. 5 having glazing bars. The southern building has four single-light windows on the ground floor and one on the first floor, all with diamond leading. Additionally, Nos. 3 and 5 have brick double ridge stacks and 20th-century glazed doors.
Local climate
Building Adjoining to South Sorrento 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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