The Queen's Tea House, Osborne House is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 August 1951. Tea house, boat house.

The Queen's Tea House, Osborne House

WRENN ID
open-string-gold
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Isle of Wight
Constituency
Isle of Wight West MP: Richard Quigley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 August 1951
Type
Tea house, boat house
Address
The Queen's Tea House, Osborne House, Whippingham Road, East Cowes
OS grid reference
SZ 523 954
Coordinates
50.75659, -1.25855
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Queen's Tea House, located on the Osborne Estate in East Cowes, was originally part of the grounds of Osborne House but is now privately owned. This building, dating from around 1850, is designed in the Italianate style and combines a boat-house and tea-house. The ground floor features a boat-house with a round-headed arch, and curved steps on either side lead up to the first-floor room, which has a terrace above. In the center of the building, there is a two-storey tower with a round window and a cornice supported by brackets. The roof is modern and pantiled, with a renewed parapet. The building has five modern windows with new shutters and a doorcase that includes a cornice and brackets. Queen Victoria often enjoyed tea on the terrace of this building, which adds to its historical significance.

Local climate

The Queen's Tea House, Osborne House 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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