Wards Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1979. Terrace. 3 related planning applications.
Wards Cottages
- WRENN ID
- solemn-rafter-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Wight
- Constituency
- Isle of Wight West MP: Richard Quigley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1979
- Type
- Terrace
- Address
- Wards Cottages, 1-5, Market Hill, Cowes, PO31 7RW
- OS grid reference
- SZ 495 962
- Coordinates
- 50.76401, -1.299
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wards Cottages is an early to mid 19th century terrace located on Market Hill in West Cowes. The building is two storeys high with attics and constructed from stone rubble. It features a renewed cement slate roof and has five sash windows with intact glazing bars. The doorcases are simple, each with flat weatherhoods supported by brackets, and the doors have four flush panels.
Local climate
Wards 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2008
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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