Former Wash House to the Coastguard Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. Wash house. 4 related planning applications.

Former Wash House to the Coastguard Cottages

WRENN ID
quiet-tower-nightshade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Isle of Wight
Constituency
Isle of Wight West MP: Richard Quigley (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Wash house
Address
Former Wash House to the Coastguard Cottages, Albany Road, East Cowes, PO32 6AB
OS grid reference
SZ 503 960
Coordinates
50.76221, -1.28798
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

The former wash house to the Coastguard Cottages was built in 1882 in Gothic style. It is constructed of yellow brick with red brick lintels, stone dressings, and a slate roof that features a large central yellow brick chimneystack with stone coping. The building is one storey high and has four windows. It is oriented gable end to the street, showcasing stone coping and kneelers, louvred lunettes, and flat-arched doorcases with plank doors. The sides of the building have two single and two paired pointed-headed sash windows with horns, but no glazing bars.

This wash house is an architecturally impressive and externally unaltered example of a late 19th-century structure. It is part of a group of buildings at a coastguard station that also includes coastguard cottages, a former officers' house, and a former boathouse.

Local climate

Former Wash House to the Coastguard 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • No sale records on file
  • Related listed building consents — 4 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
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

See all similar buildings →

this building   1 similar   nearby listed buildings

Nearby listed buildings

  1. Solent View (Former Officers' House) Grade II 29 m
  2. Coastguard Cottages Grade II 63 m
  3. Medina View (Former Boathouse) Grade II 123 m
  4. East Cowes War Memorial Grade II 485 m
  5. East Cowes Air Raid Protection (Civil Defence) Memorial Grade II 490 m
  6. Wall and Gate Piers to Church of St James Grade II 494 m
  7. Clare Lallow's Grid Iron Yard Grade II 502 m
  8. Church of St James Grade II 505 m
  9. North Lodge Grade II 540 m
  10. East Cowes Congregational Church Grade II 565 m