The Downs is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1985. House.
The Downs
- WRENN ID
- peeling-wicket-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Downs, Sapperton
- OS grid reference
- SO 917 016
- Coordinates
- 51.71375, -2.12023
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Downs is a house built in the early to mid-19th century, with one outbuilding dated "P:P/1836". It was constructed by the Playne family. The building features rubble stone and has a double range tile roof with an embattled front parapet above a cornice. There are four tall stone gable stacks and two additional stacks on the right wing. The facade is nearly symmetrical, with a square bay that projects forward in the center of the main block. The house has two storeys and four windows: three in the main section that are pointed 2-light with intersecting tracery and stone-mullions beneath square hoodmoulds, and one canted bay with four similar lights on the right wing. The central entrance is located in the projecting bay and features a moulded Tudor arch under a hoodmould, with a recessed single door designed to match the windows. The right wing is partly roughcast and includes a conservatory to the east and an oriel window on the west side. The rear wing, which was formerly stables or a similar structure, is now part of the house and has a wooden arcade on its west side.
Local climate
The Downs receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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