Clifton House is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1966. House. 8 related planning applications.
Clifton House
- WRENN ID
- bitter-cobalt-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 October 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- Clifton House, Church Street, SG17 5ET
- OS grid reference
- TL 166 391
- Coordinates
- 52.03851, -0.30139
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Clifton House is a house built in the late 18th century and early 19th century, with later additions and alterations from the late 19th century. It is constructed of red brick and features clay tile roofs. The original building has a double-pile plan with a two-span roof and stands two storeys tall. To the north, it has been extended by a three-storey block of the same height, along with additional two-storey sections further north.
The main block's front elevation has a five-window range, all of which are sashes without glazing bars, set under slightly cambered gauged brick heads. The central entrance features a Doric doorcase with part-glazed double doors, a moulded surround, fluted pilasters, a frieze with triglyphs, and a segmental pediment. Above, there is a dentilled brick cornice topped by a plain parapet. The rear elevation includes two canted bay windows flanking a doorway similar to the front. The first floor has three segmental-headed recesses with sash windows, with the outer ones being tripartite. There is a rendered first-floor band and cornice.
Inside, some of the front ground-floor rooms have panelling, and the rear ground-floor room features a plasterwork ceiling and an Adam style fireplace. There is also an ornamental ironwork staircase from the early to mid-19th century.
Local climate
Clifton House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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