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

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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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