Champion Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 January 1967. House. 2 related planning applications.
Champion Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-corbel-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Wight
- Constituency
- Isle of Wight West MP: Richard Quigley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 January 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Champion Farmhouse, Main Road, Rookley, PO38 3NN
- OS grid reference
- SZ 501 849
- Coordinates
- 50.6619, -1.29241
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Champion Farmhouse is a house that likely originated in the 17th century, with a rear wing that was refronted in the 19th century. The front elevation is dated 1728 and is constructed of red brick in English bond, topped with a hipped tiled roof. The building has two storeys and attics, featuring five windows, including three modern dormers and five early 19th-century 24-pane sash windows. There is a black band between the floors in header bond, and the central doorcase has been modified to include a modern French window.
The older L-shaped range of the house is of a lower elevation, rendered with a slate roof and a central brick chimneystack. It has two storeys and three mainly modern casement windows, two of which are set in an older surround. There is a 19th-century penticed porch.
Inside, the house features a 16th-century roll moulded beam (not in its original position) and a late 17th-century chamfered spine beam with 1 1/2 inch chamfers and lambs tongue stops. There is a stone inglenook staircase, a four-panel plank door, and early 18th-century two-panelled doors. The front part of the house includes a late 18th-century pine Chinese Chippendale staircase and six-panelled doors.
Local climate
Champion Farmhouse 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
- 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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