Pigtails is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1994. Cottage.
Pigtails
- WRENN ID
- solemn-porch-gold
- 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
- Pigtails, Clay Lane, Shalfleet
- OS grid reference
- SZ 410 872
- Coordinates
- 50.68346, -1.421
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pigtails is a cottage dating from the late 18th century, with evidence of its existence by 1793. It has been altered and extended in the 19th century. The building is constructed of stone rubble and features a thatched roof with end brick chimneystacks. It has one and a half storeys and includes two windows, along with two eyebrow dormers. The cottage has 19th-century casement windows and a simple cambered plank door topped with a 19th-century gabled weatherhood. There are later extensions on both the left and right sides of the cottage.
Local climate
Pigtails receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% 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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