Hills Downe is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. House. 3 related planning applications.
Hills Downe
- WRENN ID
- iron-postern-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hills Downe, Saunders Lane, Ash, CT3 2BX
- OS grid reference
- TR 297 579
- Coordinates
- 51.27475, 1.29255
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hills Downe is a house that dates from the late 17th century and was remodeled in the 18th century. It is constructed of red brick in English bond on the side elevations, while the rear wing is rendered and weatherboarded, topped with plain tiled roofs. The building has two storeys and a garret, featuring a moulded brick eaves cornice beneath a half-hipped roof, with stacks located at the rear left and rear right.
The front of the house has a regular arrangement of windows, with three glazing bar sashes on the first floor and two on the ground floor, all with gauged heads. The central entrance door consists of six raised and fielded panels, topped by a rectangular fanlight and framed by an open pediment on a pilaster surround. Access to the door is via a flight of six steps, which are adorned with swept iron rails on plain balusters.
Local climate
Hills Downe 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 greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% 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
- 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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