Down House is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1981. House. 1 related planning application.
Down House
- WRENN ID
- peeling-hearth-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- Down House, Linton, HR7 4QJ
- OS grid reference
- SO 669 545
- Coordinates
- 52.188, -2.48415
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Down House is an early 19th-century Regency house located in Linton by Bromyard. The building is stuccoed and features a low-pitched upper slate roof with oversailing eaves. It has two storeys and a three-bay front. The windows are sashes with glazing bars, and the ground floor includes French windows that lead to an ornamental cast iron verandah with a tent-sloped canopy, which is now clad in corrugated iron. The verandah extends to the right side of the house, where there is a doorway and a French window set in a reeded architrave. The doorway has panelled reveals and a panelled door.
Local climate
Down House receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2023
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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