Jessamine Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1949. Cottage.

Jessamine Cottage

WRENN ID
tilted-wattle-starling
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Isle of Wight
Constituency
Isle of Wight East MP: Joe Robertson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 March 1949
Type
Cottage
Address
Jessamine Cottage, 8, Rectory Road, Shanklin
OS grid reference
SZ 581 808
Coordinates
50.62461, -1.17963
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Jessamine Cottage is a Grade II listed cottage originally built in the late 18th century, consisting of three bays, as shown on the 1792 Ordnance Survey map. In the mid-19th century, two additional bays were added to the northeast. The cottage is constructed from stone rubble with brick dressings and features a thatched roof.

The southeast elevation has two casement windows on the left side, followed by an off-center projecting two-storey porch that includes a lancet window on the first floor and a quoined surround at the ground level. To the right of the porch, there is another casement window and a further casement with a gable above. A 20th-century brick glazed and wooden conservatory is also present. The northwest elevation has outshuts with mid-19th century slate roofs.

Inside, there is a straight flight staircase with stick balusters and a squat baluster-shaped newel post. Historically, this cottage served as the residence for the crew of an excise cutter during the 18th and early 19th centuries.

Local climate

Jessamine Cottage 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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