Litttledown House is a Grade II listed building in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 May 1952. House. 1 related planning application.
Litttledown House
- WRENN ID
- tangled-gateway-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Constituency
- Bournemouth East MP: Tom Hayes (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 May 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Litttledown House, Holdenhurst Road
- OS grid reference
- SZ 122 936
- Coordinates
- 50.74273, -1.82813
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Littledown House is a medium-sized mansion built around 1780 for John Dean. The house is constructed of stucco and has three storeys. The main block features three windows across and three windows deep. There is a cornice above the first floor and a cornice with a parapet at the roof. The outer window bays on the south front project, with the ground and first floor windows set back in round-headed arches. The glazing bars on the sashes are intact. A wide portico supported by four Roman Doric columns has a triglyph frieze, with a doorway in the center flanked by pilasters and a window on each side, topped with a rectangular fanlight. The central window bay on the east front is flanked by projecting chimney breasts that act as pilasters, with round-headed arches above the first floor windows. There is a lower service wing to the west.
Local climate
Litttledown House receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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