Grants Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1994. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Grants Cottage
- WRENN ID
- grey-stone-burdock
- 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
- Grants Cottage, Lynch Lane, Calbourne, Newtown and Porchfield, PO30 4JB
- OS grid reference
- SZ 425 866
- Coordinates
- 50.67832, -1.39979
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grants Cottage is an 18th-century cottage located on Lynch Lane in Calbourne. It is an L-shaped building constructed primarily of coursed stone rubble with brick dressings to the ends. The cottage has a thatched roof and brick chimneystacks at each end. It features multi-light timber casement windows, and a later lean-to doorcase. A plaque commemorates Mr William H. Long, author of the Isle of Wight Dialect Dictionary and other works, and editor of the Oglander Memoirs, who was born in the house on October 6th, 1839.
Local climate
Grants Cottage 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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