Ryde School is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1950. School. 9 related planning applications.
Ryde School
- WRENN ID
- quartered-entrance-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Wight
- Constituency
- Isle of Wight East MP: Joe Robertson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1950
- Type
- School
- Address
- Ryde School, 3, Queen's Road, PO33 3BE
- OS grid reference
- SZ 588 923
- Coordinates
- 50.72823, -1.16774
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ryde School, formerly known as "Westmount," is an early 19th-century building that served as one of the main residences for the gentry in pre-Victorian Ryde. The structure is two stories tall with an attic and originally featured five windows. It is constructed from coursed stone designed to resemble brick, with ashlar quoins and window dressings. The outer window bays slightly project, creating the appearance of wide pilasters, and have round-headed windows on the ground floor. There is a string course above each floor and wide overhanging eaves, which are interrupted in the center where the front wall rises to form an attic storey. This attic contains one round-headed window with a dentilled cornice and a pediment above it. The glazing bars are intact.
At the center of the building is a tetrastyle Ionic portico with a dentilled pediment above. The garden front is faced with ashlar and features a semi-circular stuccoed portico, now glazed, supported by four Ionic columns with a cornice and iron railing above. Additional wings have been added to the original house to accommodate parts of the school.
Local climate
Ryde School 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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