Downsells is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1984. Hall house.
Downsells
- WRENN ID
- guardian-jamb-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1984
- Type
- Hall house
- Address
- Downsells, Bredgar
- OS grid reference
- TQ 876 594
- Coordinates
- 51.30345, 0.69127
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Downsells is a hall house dating from the 16th century, with a significant alteration in 1607 and clad in the 20th century. It features a timber frame covered with red brick and has a plain tile roof. The building stands two storeys high on a plinth, with a plat band and a brick dentil cornice. There are stacks located to the centre left and at the end left in a catslide outshot. The first floor has three 20th-century cement rendered mullioned windows, while the ground floor has two such windows and a plank and stud door set in a half-timbered hipped porch. The left return front displays exposed close-studded framing with a first-floor oriel, and there is an exposed framed rear wing. Inside, there is a mantel dated 1607, which is contemporary with the added rear wing.
Local climate
Downsells 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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