Lea Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1994. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Lea Cottage
- WRENN ID
- eastward-zinc-fern
- 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
- Lea Cottage, Queens Road, Freshwater, PO40 9HG
- OS grid reference
- SZ 336 865
- Coordinates
- 50.67809, -1.52547
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lea Cottage is a late 17th or early 18th century squatter’s cottage, extended in the 19th century. The exterior is a mix of painted brick in a stretcher bond pattern and colourwashed rubble. It has a thatched roof, and a rendered chimney stack featuring timber framing and brick infill. Leaded lights are present at the rear. Inside, one room contains a large chimneybreast with vertical panelling and wide floorboards. The cottage is included on the heritage register due to its rarity of survival.
Local climate
Lea Cottage 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1998
- 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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