Hamilton House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 1960. A C18 House. 6 related planning applications.
Hamilton House
- WRENN ID
- rooted-pediment-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 March 1960
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hamilton House, Barford Lane, Downton, SP5 3QA
- OS grid reference
- SU 182 216
- Coordinates
- 50.9936, -1.74148
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hamilton House is a detached house dating from the mid-18th century. It is constructed of painted Flemish bond brick with a tiled roof and brick stacks, set on an L-shaped plan. The front of the house has two storeys and five windows. The front door, centrally located on the right side, features six fielded panels, a fanlight, and a pediment supported by Ionic pilasters. To the left of the door are three 12-pane flush sashes, and to the right a single 12-pane sash. The first floor has five 12-pane sashes, all with moulded wooden architraves. A moulded and dentilled eaves cornice runs along the top of the house. Two hipped dormers top the roof, each containing a 2-light casement window. The left return side has a 12-pane sash window on the first floor and a 2-light casement window in a small attic space. A rear wing features a 4-light leaded casement window on the first floor. The rear of the house has 12-pane sash windows on both the ground and first floors, along with an external brick stack on the left side and a 2-light casement window in a hipped dormer. A mid-19th century extension sits on the left side, featuring a large 20th-century window on the ground floor, while the original 18th-century wing is to the right with 2-light casement windows. The interior includes an 18th-century newel staircase with turned balusters, several fireplaces with Adam-style detailing, moulded corniced mantels, fielded panelling in the north room, and a dentilled ceiling cornice.
Local climate
Hamilton House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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