Old Alverstone Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 August 1951. Cottage.
Old Alverstone Cottages
- WRENN ID
- inner-chalk-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Wight
- Constituency
- Isle of Wight West MP: Richard Quigley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 August 1951
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old Alverstone Cottages, 1 and 2, Alverstone Road, Whippingham
- OS grid reference
- SZ 524 928
- Coordinates
- 50.73328, -1.25883
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Alverstone Cottages is an early 18th century farmhouse that has been converted into two cottages. The building is two storeys high with attics and features five windows. It is constructed from red brick with grey headers, set on a stone base, and has long and short stone quoins. Each side of the central first-floor window displays a diamond pattern of grey headers. The roof is tiled, with gable ends at both the north and south, complete with kneelers and attic windows. The windows are casement style, and there is a stringcourse running along the building. The central doorcase is simple, with a quoined surround and bears the date 1716 in stone figures.
Local climate
Old Alverstone Cottages 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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