The Downs Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Trafford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1985. House. 4 related planning applications.
The Downs Cottage
- WRENN ID
- pitched-vestry-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Trafford
- Constituency
- Altrincham and Sale West MP: Mr Connor Rand (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Downs Cottage, Woodville Road, WA14 2AN
- OS grid reference
- SJ 761 874
- Coordinates
- 53.38357, -2.3596
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Downs Cottage is an early 19th-century house. It is built of pebbledashed brickwork with a graduated slate roof. The house has a double-depth, central-staircase plan with two bays on either side of the central doorway. The front elevation is four bays wide, featuring a four-panel door with a flat canopy supported by slender columns, positioned between bays two and three. There are three windows on the ground floor and four on the first floor, all with stone sills and 16-pane sashes. Two ridge chimney stacks are visible.
Local climate
The Downs Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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