Overheated house at central Tooting (3)
I believe the answer is:
hot
'overheated' is the definition.
(similar in meaning)
'house at central tooting' is the wordplay.
'house' becomes 'ho' (abbreviation for house).
'at' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'central' means to look at the middle letters.
The central letter of 'tooting' is 't'.
'ho'+'t'='HOT'
(Other definitions for hot that I've seen before include "(Of food) spicy" , "Stolen - sought after" , "Fiery" , "Having a high temperature" , "Under the collar, it means anger" .)