Downhams is a Grade II listed building in the Windsor and Maidenhead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1984. Hall house. 1 related planning application.
Downhams
- WRENN ID
- fallen-screen-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Constituency
- Windsor MP: Jack Rankin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1984
- Type
- Hall house
- Address
- Downhams, 90, Staines Road, Wraysbury, TW19 5AA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 005 733
- Coordinates
- 51.45035, -0.55466
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Downhams is a timber-framed hall house dating from the 15th to early 16th century. It is roughcast and colourwashed, with steeply pitched roofs covered in old tiles, with hipped gables. The windows are modern lead-glazed casements, set irregularly. The house has an L-shaped plan, with a large chimney inserted in the late 16th or early 17th century along the axis of the ‘L’. A further large chimney is located on the west gable, also from the 17th century. The interior is of interest, showcasing much of the original timber framing, including curved wind braces. The roof is coupled, with arch-braced purlins that are sooted. The north wing, originally one bay wide, features large curved brace struts to the purlins, which are also sooted, and may represent a rebuild from a single bay at the north end of the original structure.
Local climate
Downhams sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 2 transactions since 2008
- 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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