Lower House is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 January 1967. House. 1 related planning application.

Lower House

WRENN ID
knotted-steel-plover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Isle of Wight
Constituency
Isle of Wight West MP: Richard Quigley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 January 1967
Type
House
Address
Lower House, Chale Street, PO38 2HB
OS grid reference
SZ 484 777
Coordinates
50.59777, -1.3166
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lower House is a house, likely of a modern date plaque displaying 1620, although the dripmouldings suggest a construction date closer to around 1690. It is built of rubble stone from the Isle of Wight, with a tiled roof and a central chimneystack made of brick. The house is a two-bay lobby entrance house of two storeys and attics, with a gable end. Stone coping and kneelers are present on the gable ends. The first floor features two double mullioned windows set in stone surrounds. The ground floor has two three-light mullioned windows and a centrally positioned, obtusely pointed doorcase with a hood moulding, which incorporates the windows above. A deep plinth is also visible. An outshut, of the same period as the main house, extends to the rear.

Local climate

Lower 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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