Down House is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1953. House. 2 related planning applications.
Down House
- WRENN ID
- riven-tower-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- New Forest
- Constituency
- New Forest West MP: Sir Desmond Swayne (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1953
- Type
- House
- Address
- Down House, 4, Highfield, Lymington and Pennington, SO41 9GB
- OS grid reference
- SZ 317 953
- Coordinates
- 50.75674, -1.55094
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Down House is an early 19th-century building that consists of two houses designed as a single composition. The facade is stuccoed and features a wide cornice with brackets and a slate roof. The building has three storeys and a basement, with a total of eight windows. The windows are sashes with glazing bars, and there are French casements on the ground floor. The central portion of the building has four windows and an iron balcony with a tented hood on the ground floor. The window bays on either side are recessed, and the top storey was likely added above the porches on the ground floor. Each side of the building has a wing with one wide three-light window bay topped with a bracketed pediment.
Down House, along with Nos 1 to 6, forms an important group at the top of the hill and marks the entrance into Lymington. This group is associated with the listed buildings on Stanford Hill and Priestland Place.
Local climate
Down House receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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 — 2 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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