The Cottage the Crest is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1994. Cottage.
The Cottage the Crest
- WRENN ID
- standing-footing-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Wight
- Constituency
- Isle of Wight West MP: Richard Quigley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1994
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage the Crest, Pixie Hill, Freshwater
- OS grid reference
- SZ 342 889
- Coordinates
- 50.69961, -1.51621
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage, The Crest is a pair of cottages located in Freshwater. Hill Crest, likely built in the 18th century, features stone rubble construction that is colourwashed. It has a thatched roof with an end brick chimneystack and is 1 and a half storeys high, with two windows, two 19th-century dormers, and two triple casement windows. There is also a modern weather porch. The Cottage, an early 19th-century addition, is constructed from colourwashed stone rubble as well but is of a higher elevation. It has a thatched roof with one brick chimneystack and is two storeys tall with one window, featuring one casement and a wooden weather porch on the left side. There is a mid-19th-century addition to the left of the lower elevation, which includes a triple casement window.
Local climate
The Cottage the Crest receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% 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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