Downhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 October 2001. House. 1 related planning application.
Downhouse
- WRENN ID
- drifting-keep-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- East Hampshire MP: Damian Hinds (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 October 2001
- Type
- House
- Address
- Downhouse, 131, Downhouse Road, Clanfield, East Hampshire, PO8 0TZ
- OS grid reference
- SU 694 161
- Coordinates
- 50.94033, -1.01305
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Downhouse is a house built around the late 18th century, constructed from flint with red brick dressings. It features a large hipped thatched roof with deeply overhanging eaves and brick axial and side stacks topped with tall clay pots. The building has a rectangular plan that includes three main rooms and a verandah at the front, along with smaller unheated rooms and a staircase at the back.
The exterior is one storey with an attic and presents an asymmetrical three-window south front, where the deeply overhanging eaves are supported by four rustic timber posts forming the verandah. The windows are three-light casements with glazing bars, and there is a doorway to the right of the center featuring a plank door. The rear (north side) has two two-light casements, a plank door to the left of center, and two attic dormers in thatch with small two-light casements.
Inside, the building has roughly chamfered and unchamfered ceiling beams, plank doors, and fireplaces with 20th-century chimneypieces. The attics are ceiled, but the purlins remain exposed. Downhouse is a notable example of a Georgian cottage orne.
Local climate
Downhouse receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 — 4 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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