Lytton Almshouses (5 Dwellings) is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1984. Almshouse. 3 related planning applications.
Lytton Almshouses (5 Dwellings)
- WRENN ID
- knotted-hammer-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Stevenage MP: Kevin Bonavia (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1984
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- Lytton Almshouses (5 Dwellings), Park Lane, Knebworth, SG3 6QE
- OS grid reference
- TL 229 202
- Coordinates
- 51.86711, -0.21637
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lytton Almshouses are a group of five dwellings built in 1836 by Elizabeth Bulwer Lytton. They are arranged in a single-storey range with a gabled projecting center. The buildings are constructed from yellow gault brick, featuring cement dressings and Portland stone moulded eaves corbels, topped with a slate roof. Designed in a simple Tudor style, each tenement has a door flanked by two- and three-light glazing bar casements. The doors include mullioned panels and are adorned with moulded hoods. A plaque on the center gable displays the Lytton family arms.
Local climate
Lytton Almshouses (5 Dwellings) sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% 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 61% 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 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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