Golden Hill Fort is a Grade I listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1994. Military museum. 8 related planning applications.
Golden Hill Fort
- WRENN ID
- sunken-clay-cobweb
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Wight
- Constituency
- Isle of Wight West MP: Richard Quigley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1994
- Type
- Military museum
- Address
- Golden Hill Fort, Military Road, Freshwater, PO40 9GD
- OS grid reference
- SZ 338 878
- Coordinates
- 50.68942, -1.52206
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Golden Hill Fort is a former military fort, now a museum and shops, constructed between 1863 and 1872. It served as a fortified barracks, housing the garrisons of four nearby coastal batteries and providing defensive cover for them, with guns mounted on the roof. The building has a hexagonal plan and is accessed via a brick-lined tunnel and bridge spanning a ditch. It is built of red brick in English bond, with stone coping and brick dressings. The internal facades on three sides feature first-floor cambered arches containing sash windows, and ground-floor doorcases with fanlights and sash windows. Two-storey cast iron balconies are present. The remaining three sides have sash windows, some with round-headed arches. Originally, the fort accommodated 8 officers and 128 men, including a hospital. Six guns were mounted on the roof, with 40-pounder breech loaders located at each angle on iron traversing platforms, and the roof included ammunition recesses.
Local climate
Golden Hill Fort receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 37 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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