Garden Wall to Down House is a Grade II listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 August 1971. A C18 Garden wall.

Garden Wall to Down House

WRENN ID
tall-parapet-frost
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brighton and Hove
Constituency
Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven MP: Chris Ward (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 August 1971
Type
Garden wall
Address
Garden Wall to Down House, the Green, Rottingdean, the City of Brighton and Hove
OS grid reference
TQ 368 026
Coordinates
50.80752, -0.05914
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The garden wall in front of Down House, located on the north side of The Green in Rottingdean, dates back to the 18th century. It features cobbles with a stone coping and brick piers that are currently painted. The wall is interrupted by two gates, one at the west end and the other at the east end. This structure is included for its group value with Down House.

Local climate

Garden Wall to Down House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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