Windy Ridge is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1994. Cottage.
Windy Ridge
- WRENN ID
- mired-stair-vermeil
- 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
- Cottage
- Address
- Windy Ridge, Calbourne, Newtown and Porchfield
- OS grid reference
- SZ 428 876
- Coordinates
- 50.68722, -1.39465
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Windy Ridge is a cottage dating from the 18th century, constructed of stone rubble with red brick dressings. It features a thatched roof with end brick chimneystacks and is 1 and a half storeys high, with two windows. There is one eyebrow dormer with a casement window and two ground floor casements with shutters. A 19th-century gabled wooden weather porch with a slate roof is present. To the right side, there is a modern extension built with matching materials, and there is an L-shaped range in a similar style.
Local climate
Windy Ridge 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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