Rock Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1993. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Rock Cottage
- WRENN ID
- scarred-copper-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Wight
- Constituency
- Isle of Wight West MP: Richard Quigley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1993
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Rock Cottage, Sandrock Road, Niton and Whitwell, PO38 2NQ
- OS grid reference
- SZ 502 758
- Coordinates
- 50.58033, -1.29132
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rock Cottage is a mid-19th century cottage located on Sandrock Road in Niton and Whitwell. It is constructed from Isle of Wight stone rubble and features a slate roof with an end brick chimneystack. The cottage has two storeys and three windows, which are Gothic glazed casements. The central entrance has a doorcase that includes a six-panel flush door, with the top two panels being glazed, and is surrounded by wooden trellis work.
Local climate
Rock 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 2007
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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