Pencil Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1992. House, shop. 3 related planning applications.
Pencil Cottage
- WRENN ID
- iron-spindle-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Wight
- Constituency
- Isle of Wight East MP: Joe Robertson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1992
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- Pencil Cottage, 2, Church Road, Shanklin, PO37 6NU
- OS grid reference
- SZ 582 809
- Coordinates
- 50.62541, -1.17825
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pencil Cottage is a house and shop built around 1820, originally designed in the cottage ornee style, and altered and extended in the 20th century. It is constructed from coursed Isle of Wight stone, featuring wooden bargeboards and a thatched roof with a brick chimney. The building has one storey and attics, with two windows. A large projecting gable on the left side has fretted bargeboards and a first-floor oriel supported by brackets. Below this, there is a canted bay with Gothic-headed lights. To the right, an eyebrow dormer contains a casement window, and below it is a 20th-century built-out stone porch with a plain doorcase and a rectangular fanlight. The left side elevation features a gable with an oriel and a mid-19th century five-light bay on the ground floor. There are four yellow brick clustered chimneystacks set diagonally. A 20th-century extension to the east is not of special interest.
Local climate
Pencil Cottage 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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