Possible Clues:

• Horrid, repugnant
• Unpleasant. Remove the top and it's still unpleasant
• Like inclement winter weather
• Mean street with no crossing
• 13 across is even less like the unpleasant northern place
• How unpleasant, and also unpleasant when you take off the top
• Would sound as if a din would make a House so unpleasant
• Unpleasant return of an unpleasant spot
• Traditionally, not at all about virtuous person?
• Thoroughly unpleasant