Downs Place is a Grade II listed building in the Trafford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1985. A Victorian House. 3 related planning applications.

Downs Place

WRENN ID
noble-spindle-plover
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
Period
Victorian
Address
Downs Place, 56, 58, 60 and 62, the Downs, WA14 2QJ
OS grid reference
SJ 764 874
Coordinates
53.38368, -2.35502
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Downs Place is a terrace of four houses built in 1839, as indicated by a datestone. The houses are constructed using a Flemish bond brick pattern with a slate roof. They are arranged with a central-staircase plan over two storeys, except for number 58, which is reduced to a single room width. Each house originally had a four, six, or eight-panel front door, topped with a fanlight. Numbers 62 and 58 retain moulded surrounds to their doors. The fanlight above number 60's door has been blocked, while numbers 56 and 58 still have cast iron bars within their fanlights. Each house has four windows, except for number 58, which has two. The lower window of number 58 is a 20th-century bay window, and the upper a 20-pane sash window. The other windows have cambered brick arches, stone sills, and 16-pane sashes. Dormer windows have been added to the roofs of numbers 58 and 60.

Local climate

Downs Place 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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  • Sale history — 9 transactions since 1997
  • Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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  • 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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