Downe House Farmhouse

Downe House Farmhouse is a public house that has been converted into a farmhouse, with an attached cottage that is now part of the house. It was built in the mid-19th century by G T Andrews, with the cottage added later in the 19th century. The building is constructed from pinkish brick in English garden wall bond, with ashlar dressings, and features Welsh slate and pantile roofs. It stands two storeys tall with an attic and has three bays, including a two-storey rear outshut to the right and a rear wing to the left with the cottage attached.

The farmhouse displays rusticated quoins and has raised, quoined, double-chamfered window surrounds. It features a moulded first-floor string and an eaves cornice. The central bay includes a full-height gabled porch that rises above the eaves, which has a hollow-chamfered, Tudor-arched doorway with a four-panel door (the top panels are glazed) and a cornice above. There is an architrave framing a brick panel above the door that once bore a coat of arms. On the first floor, there is a tall cross-window with small sashes for each light and a quatrefoil above.

On either side of the porch, there is a narrow window on each floor, transomed on the first floor, with sashes. The outer bays each feature a flat-roofed bay window at the front, with cross-windows, transomed side-lights, a cornice, a parapet, and a cornice that continues from the first-floor string. The first floor has cross-windows, and above, there are gabled dormers with 4-pane sashes. All gables have raised verges with moulded kneelers and coping. The building has corniced end stacks with tripled flues, as well as another cross-ridge stack.

At the rear, the outshut has a four-panel door on the right and paired, gabled half-dormers, while the wing has a pantile roof. The right return features sashes with glazing bars at the rear. The left return has a two-bay wing adjoining the house, with a one-bay added cottage, each having a door and side-sliding sashes on the ground floor, and sashes with glazing bars under flat brick arches on the first floor. The continuation of the wing has been altered and is not of special interest.