Downshire House is a Grade II* listed building in the Wandsworth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1955. House. 8 related planning applications.
Downshire House
- WRENN ID
- swift-floor-meadow
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Wandsworth
- Constituency
- Putney MP: Fleur Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1955
- Type
- House
- Address
- Downshire House, Roehampton Lane Sw15, SW15 5PU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 220 741
- Coordinates
- 51.45291, -0.2443
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Downshire House, built around 1770 for the Marquess of Downshire, is a three-storey building featuring six windows and a two-storey, three-window splayed bay extension to the north. The structure is made of brown brick, with red segmental arches over recessed windows and red dressings at the jambs and angles. The entrance boasts a rusticated wooden doorcase adorned with fluted Doric pilasters, a triglyph frieze, and a segmental pediment that is broken over the pilasters, along with panelled reveals. The garden front includes stone bands at the first floor and first floor sills, a brick band at the second floor, and a stone bracketed cornice below the parapet. The building features brick rusticated quoins and a three-window splayed bay at the ground floor. R. W. Furze Brettingham carried out work at Downshire House for the second Marquess of Downshire, presumably around 1795.
Local climate
Downshire House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% 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 0.3°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.
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- Related listed building consents — 8 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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