Downs View is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1984. House.
Downs View
- WRENN ID
- heavy-cellar-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Downs View, St. Gennys
- OS grid reference
- SX 148 932
- Coordinates
- 50.70969, -4.62344
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Downs View is a house that was formerly the Red Lion public house. It dates from the late 17th century and was remodeled in the late 18th or early 19th century, with an early 20th-century porch added later. The building is constructed of colour-washed rendered stone and cob, topped with a slate roof. It has a single room depth and features a wide outshut at the rear beneath a catslide roof. There are projecting stacks at both gable ends, with a massive off-centre axial stack. The original late 17th-century structure likely had two or three rooms, but changes in the front plane and a smaller stack on the right gable end suggest it was rebuilt or extended in the late 18th or early 19th century.
On the right gable end, there is a lean-to addition with gable coping stones. The house is two storeys high with a three-window range and two entrances at the front. An off-centre early 20th-century enclosed porch features a gabled slate roof and vertical boards in the gable, with double doors that have diagonal boarding and stained glass panels depicting a sailing ship. There is an additional entrance door on the front left. The ground floor has two windows, one on either side of the porch; the window to the left is a two-light casement with a slate sill, while the taller window to the right is a late 18th-century two-light casement with a drip ledge. The upper storey has three windows, which are two-light sliding casements with glazing bars. An oven is located at the left gable end, and the right gable end is slate hung and colour-washed.
Local climate
Downs View sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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