William Curtis House is a Grade II listed building in the East Hampshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1951. House. 2 related planning applications.
William Curtis House
- WRENN ID
- heavy-hall-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hampshire
- Constituency
- East Hampshire MP: Damian Hinds (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- William Curtis House, 25, Lenten Street, Alton, GU34 1HG
- OS grid reference
- SU 714 393
- Coordinates
- 51.14907, -0.97947
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
William Curtis House, located at 25 Lenten Street, is a building from the 17th and 18th centuries. It has two storeys plus an attic and features three bays. The structure is made of brick and has a hipped tiled roof on one end. The ground floor includes a central entrance with a pedimented doorcase and flanking flush windows. There is a moulded brick band at the first-floor level on the right side of the facade, which also has three flush windows. The building has an eaves cornice and two hipped dormer windows in the roof. To the left, there is an early 19th-century single-bay extension. The right side of the building has a return with three bays, where the central bay has a modern projection that partially obscures the initials and date "NG (17)02" made of vitreous bricks. The upper windows are wood cross-windows. Inside, there is some timber framing and a 17th-century staircase with a simple contemporary plaster ceiling. This house is notable as the birthplace of William Curtis, a botanist, in 1746.
William Curtis House is part of a group that includes Nos 11 and 13, Nos 13A, 15 (at the rear), 15A, 17, No 21, No 23 (Weybourne House), and No 25, along with Nos 6 to 14 (even), No 16 (Lenten House), and No 16A on the opposite side.
Local climate
William Curtis 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.
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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2025
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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