Upper Watchingwell is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1994. Farmhouse.

Upper Watchingwell

WRENN ID
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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
Farmhouse
Address
Upper Watchingwell, Newport Road, Calbourne, Newtown and Porchfield, PO30 4HZ
OS grid reference
SZ 447 883
Coordinates
50.6931, -1.36825
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Upper Watchingwell is a mid-18th century farmhouse that has been converted into a house. The front features mainly black brick headers with red brick detailing, while the other sides are made of brick or coursed stone rubble. It has a hipped tiled roof with a 20th-century central hipped dormer. The building is two storeys high with attics and a basement, and it has three windows. The windows are casements with cambered head linings, with the exception of the central window, which is a three-light design. There is a brick modillion cornice and a band between the floors. The central entrance has a doorcase with a flat wooden hood supported by brackets, leading to a six-panelled door and three stone steps. The left side of the house is made of coursed stone rubble with a deep plinth, possibly the remnant of an earlier structure. The right side is constructed of brick in English bond and has two windows. At the rear, there is a single-storey brick brewhouse on a stone plinth, featuring a brick chimney stack and a roof now covered in corrugated iron. The farmhouse was noted to be in existence by 1774, when it was valued as "A very good New built House with a Barn, 2 Stables, 2 Carthouses, a very good granary and a garden."

Local climate

Upper Watchingwell receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% 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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