Fort Victoria is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1994. Fort. 2 related planning applications.
Fort Victoria
- WRENN ID
- blind-corridor-aspen
- 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
- Fort
- Address
- Fort Victoria, Westhill Lane, Freshwater, PO41 0RR
- OS grid reference
- SZ 338 897
- Coordinates
- 50.70662, -1.522
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fort Victoria is a former fort built between 1852 and 1855, now serving as a marine aquarium, cafeteria, and public conveniences. It was constructed due to the invasion fears of the 1840s. The fort has a triangular shape with two seaward batteries that meet at a right angle. It is made of brick and features a series of cambered brick arches, although some of these arches have been filled in with 20th-century brickwork to create visitor facilities. What remains today is a fragment of the original fort.
Local climate
Fort Victoria 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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