Virginia Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1994. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Virginia Cottage
- WRENN ID
- muffled-bracket-bone
- 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
- Virginia Cottage, Limerstone Road, Brighstone, PO30 4AB
- OS grid reference
- SZ 443 826
- Coordinates
- 50.64228, -1.3748
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Virginia Cottage is an early 19th-century cottage located on Limerstone Road in Brighstone. It is constructed from stone rubble with red brick dressings. The cottage features a half-hipped thatched roof, which is topped by a red brick chimneystack. The building has one storey and attics in the gable end. There are two 19th-century casement windows, along with a later weather hood that has a gabled slate roof and marginal glazing.
Local climate
Virginia Cottage 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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