Downings is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1967. House.
Downings
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-minaret-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Downings, Silver Street, Bredgar
- OS grid reference
- TQ 877 604
- Coordinates
- 51.31235, 0.69236
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Downings is a hall house dating from the 16th century, with an 18th-century front. It is timber framed and clad with brown bricks, featuring red-brick dressings and a plain tile roof. The building has two storeys and includes a brick modillion eaves cornice and a parapet on its hipped roof, which has gablets and stacks positioned at the centre left and projecting end right. The windows are regularly arranged, consisting of four glazing bar sashes and a central Venetian window, all with gauged heads. On the ground floor, there are four glazing bar sashes and a centrally located glazed and panelled door set in a panelled surround, which leads to what has been a screens passage.
Local climate
Downings sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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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