Freemasons Tavern is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1972. Tavern. 1 related planning application.

Freemasons Tavern

WRENN ID
sombre-span-yew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Isle of Wight
Constituency
Isle of Wight West MP: Richard Quigley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 February 1972
Type
Tavern
Address
Freemasons Tavern, Lugley Street, Newport and Carisbrooke
OS grid reference
SZ 497 892
Coordinates
50.70032, -1.29634
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Freemasons Tavern is an early 19th-century public house located at the corner of St James's Street and Lugley Street. The building is three storeys high, constructed of painted brick, and features a low-pitched gable end slate roof with a wooden eaves cornice. A brick band runs between the storeys, and there is a plinth at the base.

The front facing St James's Street has three sash windows with intact glazing bars on the second floor, framed by moulded flush wood frames and thin block sills. The mid-19th-century public house front includes Doric pilasters with incised panels, a frieze, and a cornice, along with an angled door. The Lugley Street side has two recessed sash windows with glazing bars and block sills. There is a bay window on the first floor with three lights, also featuring glazing bars, a plain strips frieze, a cornice, and a deep apron. Additionally, there is a small round-headed window.

On the ground floor at the corner, there is a large window with three round-headed lights flanked by Doric pilasters. The recessed door consists of four fielded panels, two of which are glazed, and is set within a doorcase of thin panelled pilasters topped with a bracketed cornice hood.

Local climate

Freemasons Tavern receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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