Lower Watchingwell is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 January 1967. House. 5 related planning applications.
Lower Watchingwell
- WRENN ID
- turning-timber-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Wight
- Constituency
- Isle of Wight West MP: Richard Quigley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 January 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lower Watchingwell, A3054, Calbourne, Newtown and Porchfield, PO30 4LZ
- OS grid reference
- SZ 444 893
- Coordinates
- 50.7022, -1.37133
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Watchingwell is a house dating from the early 17th century, originally designed as a lobby entrance house and later extended in the 18th century. It is constructed from Isle of Wight stone rubble with red brick dressings and features an old tiled roof with two brick chimneystacks. The building has two storeys and attics in the gable ends, and includes three cambered headed triple casements. There is a weather porch with a slate roof and a round-headed entrance, along with a catslide roof at the rear. The left wing of the house incorporates a former brewhouse.
Inside, there is an early 17th-century beam with a 4-inch chamfer and lambs tongue stop, as well as a stone inglenook fireplace featuring lambs tongue stops. The early 19th-century staircase has stick balusters and a column newel. The roof structure includes two tiers of purlins, and there is a 17th-century attic plank door on pintle hinges.
Local climate
Lower 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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