Old Down House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Old Down House
- WRENN ID
- under-ledge-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Down House, Binegar, BA3 4SA
- OS grid reference
- ST 625 512
- Coordinates
- 51.25906, -2.5387
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Down Cottage is an early 19th-century house located in Binegar. It is constructed of random rubble with a hipped slate roof and brick stacks. The front of the house is symmetrical, with two storeys and three bays, featuring sash windows with glazing bars and marginal lights, set within plain painted surrounds. A window on the centre of the first floor has a semi-circular head and Gothic glazing. A central, half-glazed porch, topped with a hipped roof, provides access to the house via a half-glazed door.
Local climate
Old Down House receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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 — 7 transactions since 2004
- 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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