Downs House is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. House. 3 related planning applications.
Downs House
- WRENN ID
- half-keep-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Downs House, Main Street, West Ilsley, RG20 7AA
- OS grid reference
- SU 473 825
- Coordinates
- 51.53986, -1.31863
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Downs House is a late 18th-century house, altered in the 19th century and restored in the 20th century, located on Main Street, West Ilsley. The building is constructed of red brick with grey bands at the first floor and eaves, topped with a tiled roof. It has a rectangular plan with an outshut to the rear and a service wing to the east of the rear. The house is two storeys high with an attic, and features three gabled dormers and flanking stacks with offset caps. The south elevation includes three bays of glazing bar sash windows, the outer ones tripartite, and a central six-panel door with glazed upper panels. The door is set within a doorcase featuring simple pilasters, a frieze, and a cornice. The windows are topped with rubbed brick flat arches.
Local climate
Downs House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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