Hollytree Cottage and Myrtle Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1994. Cottage.
Hollytree Cottage and Myrtle Cottage
- WRENN ID
- bitter-thatch-yew
- 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
- Hollytree Cottage and Myrtle Cottage, Victoria Road, Freshwater
- OS grid reference
- SZ 341 862
- Coordinates
- 50.67474, -1.51792
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hollytree Cottage and Myrtle Cottage are a pair of cottages dating from the 18th century. They are constructed from Isle of Wight stone rubble with red brick dressings, although Hollytree Cottage has been whitewashed on the front. The cottages feature thatched roofs with three brick chimneystacks and are two storeys tall with two windows each. Myrtle Cottage has two 9-pane sash windows on the first floor, one 9-pane sash window on the ground floor, and a 19th-century casement window. It also has a modern plank door. Hollytree Cottage has 9-pane sash windows on the first floor, casement windows on the ground floor, and a 20th-century stone and weather-boarded porch.
Local climate
Hollytree Cottage and Myrtle 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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