Convent of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 October 1953. Convent. 6 related planning applications.
Convent of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart
- WRENN ID
- ruined-wattle-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Wight
- Constituency
- Isle of Wight West MP: Richard Quigley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 October 1953
- Type
- Convent
- Address
- Convent of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Covent of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, 22, High Street, Newport and Carisbrooke, PO30 1NR
- OS grid reference
- SZ 487 882
- Coordinates
- 50.69172, -1.31083
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Convent of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, located at No. 22 High Street in Carisbrooke, features a front that appears to date from the late 18th century. The building is finished with cement rendering and has wide eaves, with pilastered ends. It stands two storeys tall, with four upper windows and a ground floor that includes one window and a five-light sash window. There are late extensions on the west side. A notable feature is the projecting porch, which is supported by slender composite columns and adorned with fine dentils and modillions, topped with a pediment that has a fluted tympanum. The roof is covered with old tiles and has an added finial.
Local climate
Convent of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart 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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- Related listed building consents — 6 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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