70, Tilehouse Street is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 April 1951. House. 1 related planning application.
70, Tilehouse Street
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-lintel-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 April 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- 70, Tilehouse Street, SG5 2DY
- OS grid reference
- TL 181 290
- Coordinates
- 51.94737, -0.2818
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century house located on the north side of Tilehouse Street. The building is constructed of painted brick, topped with a tiled gambrel roof that includes a box dormer and a corbelled cornice. It has two storeys and attics. A 19th-century sash window is visible, along with a door set within an architrave surround and sheltered by a cut bracketed hood. Nos. 70 to 75, Nos. 77 and 78, and Nos. 81 to 84 Tilehouse Street form a group.
Local climate
70, Tilehouse Street 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2011
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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