Downsgate is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1967. House. 1 related planning application.
Downsgate
- WRENN ID
- tenth-loggia-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Downsgate, Silverden Lane, Sandhurst, TN18 5NU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 787 285
- Coordinates
- 51.02865, 0.54754
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Downsgate is an early 19th-century house. The original part is stuccoed with a slate roof largely hidden behind a parapet, and features a brick chimney stack. The main section has five windows, with a later two-storey, one-window addition to the north and a single-storey extension to the south. The original facade features a moulded parapet coping, twelve-pane sash windows with shutters, and a central doorcase with Tuscan columns. The door is half-glazed with side lights and a rectangular chinoiserie fanlight, set above a plinth. Inside, the staircase has cast iron balusters and scrolled tread ends.
Local climate
Downsgate receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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