Downlands is a Grade II listed building in the East Hampshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1986. Country house. 1 related planning application.
Downlands
- WRENN ID
- shifting-joist-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hampshire
- Constituency
- Farnham and Bordon MP: Gregory Stafford (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1986
- Type
- Country house
- Address
- Downlands, Rectory Lane, Bramshott and Liphook, GU30 7QZ
- OS grid reference
- SU 851 336
- Coordinates
- 51.09566, -0.78568
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Downlands is a country house located in Bramshott, built in the mid-18th century, around 1800, with later additions from the late 19th century. The front walls are constructed of brick in Flemish bond, featuring sandstone quoins, first and second floor bands, a plinth, and plain architraves with keys on the second floor. The rear walls are made of ironstone with galletted joints, while the side walls consist of ironstone with the second floor in brickwork with blue headers. The ground floor bays, added in the 19th century, are made of Bath stone and have moulded cornices. The house has two tapered stacks at each end of the brickwork above the lower ironstone sections. It features a low-pitched hipped slate roof with wide eaves and brackets at the front, set against a plain fascia.
This Georgian house has two storeys, raised to three at the second date, and presents a symmetrical south front with three storeys and five windows. The windows are sashes set in reveals, with two large ground floor bays, each containing three Victorian sashes. The doorway features an arched architrave and a Gothic fanlight set within a stone shallow porch, which dates to around 1800. This porch has a classical 'inantis' form with a simple entablature above Ionic columns, flanked by plain square columns. There are rear wings of two storeys, with further irregular extensions from the 19th century. Each side has a flank wall of sandstone, with plain coping that curves downward above the doorways, particularly filled at the east side.
Local climate
Downlands receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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