Mariner's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1979. House.
Mariner's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- crooked-lantern-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Wight
- Constituency
- Isle of Wight West MP: Richard Quigley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1979
- Type
- House
- Address
- Mariner's Cottage, Sun Hill, Cowes, PO31 7HY
- OS grid reference
- SZ 494 961
- Coordinates
- 50.76286, -1.29984
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mariner's Cottage is an early 19th-century house located on the south side of Sun Hill in West Cowes. The building is stuccoed and features a tiled roof, standing two storeys tall with attics and one window. The ground floor has a single sash window with vertical glazing bars and shutters, while there is also one dormer window. The entrance is highlighted by a doorcase that includes a cornice and pediment, reeded pilasters, and a six-panelled door, with the top two panels cut away and glazed.
Local climate
Mariner's 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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