Downs Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 September 1982. Farmhouse.

Downs Farmhouse

WRENN ID
mired-baluster-sparrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Constituency
Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
10 September 1982
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Downs Farmhouse, Llantwit Major, Cowbridge / Y Bont-Faen
OS grid reference
SS 950 700
Coordinates
51.42008, -3.51041
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Downs Farmhouse is a two-storey building constructed from coursed local limestone rubble, topped with Welsh slate gabled roofs and stone gable stacks. The main elevation is now largely covered in creeper as of May 2003. The house features a three-bay centre wing flanked by two lower height, one-bay wings that are slightly recessed. Originally, the building had sash windows, but the centre wing now has modern three-pane sash windows in segmentally headed openings at the end bays. In the centre, there is a half-glazed modern door with an oval window above it. Each flanking wing has an inner ground floor doorway with a modern door and a small central first floor window with a cambered head. All joinery dates from the late 20th century.

At the rear, there is a short projecting cross-wing with an external chimney breast on the gable end, and all joinery here is also from the late 20th century.

The interior details were not available during the resurvey, but according to the previous list description from 1982, the centre wing features a staircase with straight balusters. Each side room of the centre wing has a fireplace surround in an early 19th century style, complete with a reeded frame and angle roundels.

Local climate

Downs Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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