Downs Barton is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. House. 5 related planning applications.
Downs Barton
- WRENN ID
- tattered-screen-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Downs Barton, Poundstock, EX23 0AX
- OS grid reference
- SX 201 993
- Coordinates
- 50.76585, -4.55131
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Downs Barton is a house dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of stone rubble with brick dressings, capped by a slate roof with gabled ends. Brick chimneys are located on the gable ends, with an additional chimney on the left gable end facing the front. The house follows a double-depth plan. The symmetrical front facade has three bays and includes a panelled front door with a rectangular fanlight, now protected by a 20th-century glazed porch. The ground floor has two hornless sash windows, and the first floor has three. Each sash window contains eight panes above eight panes. The interior remains uninspected.
Local climate
Downs Barton sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- 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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