Kelston or Nelson Mansions is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1972. House. 3 related planning applications.
Kelston or Nelson Mansions
- WRENN ID
- hollow-bastion-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Wight
- Constituency
- Isle of Wight East MP: Joe Robertson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 May 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- Kelston or Nelson Mansions, Nelson Place, Ryde, PO33 2ET
- OS grid reference
- SZ 595 927
- Coordinates
- 50.73114, -1.15793
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Circa 1820s, "Kelston" or "Nelson Mansions" is a large detached house situated on Nelson Place, though its front faces Castle Street. The house has three storeys and is faced with cement rendering, featuring coupled pilasters with incised Greek key panels. The inner pilasters project slightly, supporting a cornice above the first floor, with further pilasters above this and a cornice and parapet at the top. A tetrastyle Greek Doric portico, raised on three steps and with an iron balustrade above an entablature, sits on the front. It provides access to the recessed sash windows, which lack glazing bars and have block sills. The first-floor cornice extends along the Nelson Place entrance front, where a central Greek Doric porch is located. "Kelston" or "Nelson Mansions" forms a group with numbers 22 to 24 Castle Street.
Local climate
Kelston or Nelson Mansions 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 — 16 transactions since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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