The Downings is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1980. A 19th century Residential building.
The Downings
- WRENN ID
- still-buttress-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1980
- Type
- Residential building
- Period
- 19th century
- Address
- The Downings, the Street, Westwell
- OS grid reference
- TQ 990 471
- Coordinates
- 51.18881, 0.84723
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Downings is an early 19th-century building consisting of two parallel ranges. It is two storeys high and constructed of red brick with a tiled roof. The front features three sash windows with intact glazing bars. There is a small Tuscan porch that includes a doorcase with a rectangular fanlight, panelled reveals, and a door made up of six moulded panels. The side elevation is partly tile-hung.
Local climate
The Downings 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 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% 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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