Brighstone Post Office Wayside Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1994. House and shop. 1 related planning application.
Brighstone Post Office Wayside Cottage
- WRENN ID
- western-panel-linden
- 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
- House and shop
- Address
- Brighstone Post Office Wayside Cottage, North Street, PO30 4AX
- OS grid reference
- SZ 427 828
- Coordinates
- 50.64341, -1.39615
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wayside Cottage and Brighstone Post Office is a house and shop dating from the mid-18th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. The building is constructed of coursed clunch stone with red brick dressings and features a thatched roof with three brick chimneystacks. It has one storey and attics, with four windows, including four eyebrow dormers fitted with casement windows. The ground floor also has casement windows and two plank doors. At the rear, there is a 19th-century outshut with a slate roof, while the left side gable is rendered. Inside, there is a blocked stone fireplace with a wooden bressumer, and a spine beam that has a chamfer and lambs tongue stop.
Local climate
Brighstone Post Office Wayside 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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- No sale records on file
- 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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