Stone-lined watering pond at Norris Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 2016. Pond.

Stone-lined watering pond at Norris Castle

WRENN ID
peeling-bonework-sedge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Isle of Wight
Constituency
Isle of Wight West MP: Richard Quigley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 November 2016
Type
Pond
Address
Stone-lined watering pond at Norris Castle, New Barn Road, East Cowes, PO32 6AZ
OS grid reference
SZ 511 962
Coordinates
50.76319, -1.27564
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The stone-lined watering pond at Norris Castle is an early 19th-century structure built for Lord Henry Seymour. It is a substantial T-shaped pond, measuring approximately 8 meters by 9 meters, with a watering ramp that extends 6 meters on the north side. The walls are made of coursed and squared stone and stand about 1 meter to 2 meters high.

Local climate

Stone-lined watering pond at Norris Castle 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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