The Old Smugglers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1976. Cottage.
The Old Smugglers Cottage
- WRENN ID
- still-sandstone-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Wight
- Constituency
- Isle of Wight East MP: Joe Robertson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 July 1976
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Smugglers Cottage, Bonchurch Village Road, Ventnor, PO38 1RG
- OS grid reference
- SZ 575 780
- Coordinates
- 50.59923, -1.18781
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Smugglers Cottage is a small stone rubble cottage, dating from the 18th century or possibly earlier. It is one and a half storeys tall and is positioned at a right angle to the road. The cottage features a gable end slate roof with a rubble chimney at the end. There are two windows, which are casement half dormers with a long sloped roof and lead cheeks. The central door is plain. The cottage is part of a group that includes Herriot House, Edgemount, The Bobbin, Nightingales, and the Lodge to Compton Undermount.
Local climate
The Old Smugglers Cottage 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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