Down House is a Grade II* listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 October 1952. House. 1 related planning application.
Down House
- WRENN ID
- woven-column-snow
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Brighton and Hove
- Constituency
- Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven MP: Chris Ward (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 October 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Down House, the Green, Rottingdean, the City of Brighton and Hove, BN2 7HA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 368 026
- Coordinates
- 50.80767, -0.05925
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Down House is a wing of a larger building known as The Old Farmhouse, believed to date from 1690, with a front added in 1730. The exterior features dressed flints with red brick dressings and a tiled roof. The building has two storeys and a six-window range. The round-arched entrance is located in the fourth bay from the west and includes a doorcase with engaged Doric columns that support a broken pediment. The entrance has panelled reveals, a fanlight with decorative glazing, and a panelled door of original design, although the upper panels are now glazed. All windows are flat-arched with painted brick dressings, and there is a brick storey band and quoins. The sashes are of original design, and there is a modillion cornice and end stacks. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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