Briar Thatch is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 November 1988. Farmhouse.
Briar Thatch
- WRENN ID
- lunar-chalk-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Wight
- Constituency
- Isle of Wight West MP: Richard Quigley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 November 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Briar Thatch, Queens Road, Freshwater
- OS grid reference
- SZ 336 869
- Coordinates
- 50.681, -1.52547
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Briar Thatch is a house, formerly a farmhouse, dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed of Isle of Wight stone rubble with brick quoins, all of which are now painted. The building features a half-hipped thatched roof with end brick chimneystacks. It has two storeys, with two windows and one window space, featuring 16-pane sashes; the ground floor sashes have cambered head linings. The central doorcase is adorned with reeded architrave and a six-fielded panelled door, with the top two panels being glazed. The central section of the house appears to be a mid-19th century link building with a slate roof. The rear part of the building is one and a half storeys high, made of stone rubble and rendered, with a thatched roof that includes an end chimneystack and an eyebrow dormer with a casement window. Inside, there is an inglenook fireplace. The house is shown on a map from 1793.
Local climate
Briar Thatch 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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