Down House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Sussex local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 May 1983. A C18 House.

Down House

WRENN ID
muffled-pewter-pine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Sussex
Constituency
Mid Sussex MP: Alison Bennett (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 May 1983
Type
House
Address
Down House, 77, High Street, Hurstpierpoint and Sayers Common, BN6 9RE
OS grid reference
TQ 281 164
Coordinates
50.93336, -0.17746
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Down House is an 18th-century building located on the north side of Hurstpierpoint High Street. It is two storeys high and features four windows. The structure is made of red brick and has an eaves cornice along with a tiled roof. The glazing bars are missing from the windows. The entrance includes a doorway adorned with pilasters, a pediment, and a semi-circular fanlight, leading to a door with six fielded panels.

Local climate

Down House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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