8 and 10 Castle Road is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1979. A C19 Pair of cottages. 12 related planning applications.
8 and 10 Castle Road
- WRENN ID
- secret-stair-oak
- 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
- Pair of cottages
- Address
- 8 and 10 Castle Road, Cowes, PO31 7QY
- OS grid reference
- SZ 494 962
- Coordinates
- 50.76364, -1.29961
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 8 and 10 Castle Road are an early 19th-century pair of houses located in West Cowes. They are constructed of grey headers with red brick features, including window dressings, quoins, a stringcourse, and an eaves cornice. No 8 has a painted exterior and a tiled roof, while both houses are two storeys high with attics, featuring two windows and one dormer each. Only No 10 retains its original glazing bars. The doorcases of both houses have flat hoods supported by brackets.
Local climate
8 and 10 Castle Road 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 12 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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