Bookside Cottage Digby Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1994. Cottage.
Bookside Cottage Digby Cottage
- WRENN ID
- final-chapel-coral
- 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
- Bookside Cottage Digby Cottage, B3399, Brighstone
- OS grid reference
- SZ 423 830
- Coordinates
- 50.64526, -1.40179
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bookside Cottage and Digby Cottage are a pair of cottages dating from the 18th century. They are constructed from Isle of Wight stone rubble, with Digby Cottage being colourwashed. The cottages feature half-hipped thatched roofs and have two brick chimney stacks. They are one storey high with attics and contain four windows in total, all of which are casement windows. Digby Cottage has one casement window on the ground floor that is adorned with a hood moulding. Both cottages have two thatched weather porches. Bookside Cottage includes a doorcase with a plank door supported by rustic columns.
Local climate
Bookside Cottage Digby Cottage receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% 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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