Great Whitcombe Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1972. A C18 Cottage.
Great Whitcombe Cottages
- WRENN ID
- plain-ledge-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Wight
- Constituency
- Isle of Wight West MP: Richard Quigley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1972
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Great Whitcombe Cottages, 2 and 3, Whitcombe Road, Newport and Carisbrooke
- OS grid reference
- SZ 489 869
- Coordinates
- 50.68038, -1.30796
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Great Whitcombe Cottages, located on Whitcombe Road, are 18th century buildings constructed from stone rubble with red brick dressings and a plinth. The cottages are two storeys high and feature a gable end roof covered with old tiles. There are two windows, each with three light casements and flat brick arches above them. The entrance has a plain cottage door with a blind four light above it.
Local climate
Great Whitcombe Cottages 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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