Downside House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 October 1974. House. 3 related planning applications.
Downside House
- WRENN ID
- dim-glass-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 October 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Downside House, Bath Road, Shepton Mallet, BA4 4JL
- OS grid reference
- ST 623 448
- Coordinates
- 51.20154, -2.53975
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Downside House is a house dating from around 1700, with a significant refronting in the 18th century. It is constructed from coursed rubble with dressed quoins, and has a concrete double roman tile roof and brick end stacks. The house presents a symmetrical facade in an "L" shape. The front has two storeys and six bays, featuring late 19th-century and mid-20th-century sash windows with glazing bars. A central door opening has a square head and a hollow semi-circular stone hood supported on elaborately moulded stone brackets; a mid-20th-century six-panelled door is in place. A two-storey, four-bay wing extends to the rear, with irregular window placement. One early 19th-century window has a semi-circular head and Gothic glazing, while the remaining windows are mainly two-light mullioned. There are three door openings with plank doors.
Local climate
Downside House receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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