Lady Down House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1988. Farmhouse.

Lady Down House

WRENN ID
ragged-threshold-briar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 June 1988
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Lady Down House, Holt
OS grid reference
ST 852 592
Coordinates
51.33215, -2.2138
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lady Down House is a farmhouse, now a detached house, dating from around 1700 and altered in the early 19th century. It is built of coursed rubble stone and features a two-span hipped stone slate roof with brick stacks at the rear. The house is two storeys high with three windows. The central entrance has a panelled door set in a chamfered stone case, topped with a flat stone hood supported by brackets. On either side of the door are pairs of 12-pane sash windows inserted into earlier, partly blocked openings. A broken lintel string course runs above these windows. The first floor has three sash windows.

On the left side of the house, there is a 2-light recessed chamfered mullioned casement window on the first floor, along with attached single-storey extensions made of brick and rubble stone. The right side features two hipped dormers, each with 2-light casements. At the rear, there are two 2-light recessed cyma-mullioned casement windows on the ground floor and three 2-light mullioned casements on the first floor. The interior was not accessible at the time of the survey in June 1987.

Local climate

Lady Down House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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