Old Downs is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1951. House. 2 related planning applications.
Old Downs
- WRENN ID
- kindled-storey-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Downs, Church Street, Bradford Abbas, DT9 6RF
- OS grid reference
- ST 589 142
- Coordinates
- 50.92623, -2.58608
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Downs is a detached house located on Church Street in Bradford Abbas, dating from the late 17th century. The building features coursed rubble-stone walls and slate roofs with gable ends and stone gable copings. It is two storeys high and has four windows with ovolo-moulded wood mullions from the 17th century, which contain iron casements with lead lights. The ground floor has four-light windows, while the first floor has three-light windows. There are reset wood lintels and dripstones above the ground floor windows. To the right of the front door, there is a small square stone window. The front door, positioned to the left of centre, is a plank-and-muntin door that is studded and set in an ovolo-moulded wood frame with a depressed-arch head, also from the 17th century.
Local climate
Old Downs 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 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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