Windmill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1994. Cottage.

Windmill Cottage

WRENN ID
tattered-zinc-nettle
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
Windmill Cottage, Summers Lane, Totland
OS grid reference
SZ 329 866
Coordinates
50.679, -1.53531
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Windmill Cottage is a building that originally started as one cottage, later became two cottages, and is now under single ownership. It dates from the early 18th century and was extended to the left around 1760. The structure is made of stone rubble with ashlar quoins and features stone gable ends with kneelers. The roof, which was originally thatched, is now covered with modern tiles and has a renewed brick chimney stack.

The cottage has three renewed casement windows with triangular patterned glazing, possibly mimicking designs from the older windows. There is a modern penticed doorcase at the entrance. Inside, you will find a wooden two-panelled door with an L hinge, a brick fireplace with a cambered arch that indicates the location of a former bread oven, and a stone flagged floor. The lounge features a beam with a slight chamfer, and an internal stone mullioned window on the first floor suggests that the cottage was extended at some point.

Local climate

Windmill Cottage 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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