Downs Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 13 May 1975. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Downs Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- rough-vault-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Constituency
- Cardiff South and Penarth MP: Stephen Doughty (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 13 May 1975
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Downs Farmhouse, Dinas Powys
- OS grid reference
- ST 165 696
- Coordinates
- 51.4198, -3.20159
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Downs Farmhouse is a large farmhouse built with rendered stone walls and a slate roof featuring end and ridge stacks. The building has two storeys and an attic, with a plan that includes a lobby entry leading to a central back-to-back fireplace that divides the hall and parlour. The symmetrical frontage has a narrow central entrance bay that projects forward, with a roof extending over it; the front door has a rectangular window above. There are two windows on each side, all featuring decorative 20th-century glazing in the casements.
Inside, the farmhouse retains its original layout, including open fireplaces that are back to back. It reportedly has broad chamfered beams with ovolo stops and one fireplace bressumer with a sunk chamfer.
Local climate
Downs Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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