Downley Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1986. House.
Downley Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- tattered-shingle-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Downley Farmhouse, Plomer Green Lane
- OS grid reference
- SU 846 952
- Coordinates
- 51.64999, -0.77757
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Downley Farmhouse is a house dated 1819, designed by H. Rhodes for the Dashwood estate. It is constructed of chequer brick and features a hipped slate roof with a brick chimney. The building is double pile, standing two storeys tall with three bays. Below the eaves, there is a frieze with projecting pairs of upright bricks set at intervals. The windows are leaded casements; the outer bays on the ground floor have 3-light transomed casements with segmental heads set in shallow arched recesses, while the first floor has paired casements with cambered heads. The central brick porch has a shallow gable and a rendered semi-circular arch with impost blocks and a tall keyblock. The door inside is flush-panelled and slightly off-centre. There is another bay set back to the right. An attached stable is present but is not of special interest. Drawings of the farmhouse are located in the Dashwood Collection at West Wycombe House.
Local climate
Downley Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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