Down House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1984. House.
Down House
- WRENN ID
- rough-bronze-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Down House, Symondsbury
- OS grid reference
- SY 439 918
- Coordinates
- 50.72356, -2.79596
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Down House is a single house set in grounds, built in the early 18th century. It features stone walls that are rendered, with stone angle pilasters. The roof is made of slate and stone-slate, with stone gable copings, and there are two brick stacks at the left and right gables. The house is two storeys high and has three windows, along with three lighters that have flat stone mullions, a moulded architrave, and a classical cornice. The moulded stone cills and cast iron casements include one horizontal bar. The entire facade is topped with a modillion eaves cornice.
The front doorway is centrally located and has a stone eared architrave with a projecting dropped triple-keystone. Above the door is a plain classical pediment supported by volute brackets, which continue down as plain pilasters to the stone plinth. The door itself is a 20th-century wooden design with all glass panels.
At the north gable end, there is a small service range constructed with the same materials, roof, and window type. It features a doorway at the north end that is similar to the front door but has a segmental pediment.
Local climate
Down House receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% 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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