45, Old Town is a Grade II listed building in the Lambeth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 March 1979. House.
45, Old Town
- WRENN ID
- hidden-parapet-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lambeth
- Constituency
- Clapham and Brixton Hill MP: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 March 1979
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- TQ 292 755
- Coordinates
- 51.46406, -0.1409
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 45 on Old Town in Clapham is probably from the late 17th century and has undergone some alterations. The building is two storeys high and features a single window on the street front, but it has a greater depth with two windows at the back on the left side. The exterior is now rendered and has incised lines. There is a modillioned eaves cornice, which is damaged. The roof is high-pitched and hipped, covered with tiles, and includes one hipped dormer at the front and two on the side. The ground floor has an early 20th-century shop front.
Local climate
45, Old Town sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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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