The Downs is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Villa.
The Downs
- WRENN ID
- spare-granite-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- The Downs, High Street, Croxton
- OS grid reference
- TL 248 599
- Coordinates
- 52.22399, -0.17391
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Downs is a villa built in the early to mid 19th century. It is constructed of gault brick and features a low pitched hipped slate roof. The building has two storeys and a lower rear service wing. Notable architectural elements include deep boarded eaves and a plinth. The facade is asymmetric, with stone steps leading to a Tuscan portico that supports a wide six-panelled door flanked by narrow sidelights and a rectangular fanlight. On the ground floor, there are two large recessed twelve-paned hung sash windows, each with flat plastered arches and incised key blocks. The first floor has three smaller windows of a similar style. Additionally, there is a verandah on the west elevation, which has a pent roof and a pierced wooden frieze supported by cast iron columns.
Local climate
The Downs sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.4°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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