Lenten House is a Grade II listed building in the East Hampshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 March 1977. A Early C19 House.
Lenten House
- WRENN ID
- south-stone-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hampshire
- Constituency
- East Hampshire MP: Damian Hinds (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 March 1977
- Type
- House
- Period
- Early C19
- Address
- Lenten House, 16, Lenten Street, Alton
- OS grid reference
- SU 715 393
- Coordinates
- 51.14885, -0.97875
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lenten House is an early 19th-century building located on Lenten Street. It is two storeys high and has three bays, with a stuccoed exterior and a slate roof. The ground floor features two recessed sash windows and a mid-19th-century doorcase that has a dentilled cornice supported by heavy consoles. There is a broad band at the first-floor level, which includes a central blank window flanked by a single recessed sash window on either side. Lenten House is part of a group that includes Nos 6 to 14 (even), Nos 16A, 11 and 13, Nos 13A, 15 (at the rear), 15A, 17, No 21, No 23 (Weybourne House), and No 25 (William Curtis House) opposite.
Local climate
Lenten House receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2005
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings