Albany Bars is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1972. A Circa 1840 to 1850 Commercial building.
Albany Bars
- WRENN ID
- first-iron-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Wight
- Constituency
- Isle of Wight East MP: Joe Robertson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 May 1972
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- Albany Bars, 11, the Esplanade, Ryde, PO33 2DY
- OS grid reference
- SZ 593 928
- Coordinates
- 50.73244, -1.16007
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Albany Bars is a building dating from around 1840 to 1850. It stands four storeys high and is faced in stone rubble that mimics brickwork. The building features rendered rusticated quoins, a plain rendered frieze, and a heavily moulded main cornice. The parapet includes three panels of turned balusters. The second floor has a plain frieze and a dentil cornice, while the first floor has a plinth.
There are three recessed windows on the first floor, which are sash and tripartite on the west side, with later glazing bars and plain rendered surrounds. Below the window heads is a row of dentils, and the windows have block sills with consoles on the second floor. The tall first floor windows are topped with pediments on consoles. The ground floor has been entirely modernised.
Albany Bars is part of a group that includes No 1 and Nos 3 to 14.
Local climate
Albany Bars 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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