Curvilinear Glasshouse in Kitchen Garden at Downton Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 November 2000. A Victorian Glasshouse. 2 related planning applications.
Curvilinear Glasshouse in Kitchen Garden at Downton Castle
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-basalt-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 November 2000
- Type
- Glasshouse
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Curvilinear Glasshouse in Kitchen Garden at Downton Castle, SY8 2LF
- OS grid reference
- SO 442 749
- Coordinates
- 52.36967, -2.81989
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a curvilinear glasshouse located within the kitchen garden at Downton Castle, dating to circa 1820. It was built for experiments in protected cultivation by Thomas Andrew Knight, the second president of the Royal Horticultural Society of London, and the cast-iron components were produced by Messrs W. and D. Bailey of London. The glasshouse has a cast-iron curved profile, with coped rendered brick rear and end walls and overlapping panes of glass. It is rectangular in plan, featuring a doorway in the left end and a high-level door in the right end.
Local climate
Curvilinear Glasshouse in Kitchen Garden at Downton Castle receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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 — 1 transaction since 2005
- 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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