18, The Esplanade is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1972. House.

18, The Esplanade

WRENN ID
slow-steel-burdock
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
18, The Esplanade, Ryde
OS grid reference
SZ 594 928
Coordinates
50.73201, -1.15881
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

18 The Esplanade is a building dating from around 1840 to 1850. It is three storeys high and features a stone facade that imitates brick, with rusticated quoins. The roof has double gables covered with slate, and the eaves are concealed by a rendered blocking course, cornice, and frieze. There is a band at the second floor level and a moulded sill course with a frieze below at the first floor. The building has four windows, two of which are in a bow shape on the east side. The windows above the doorway are blind and all are recessed sash windows with later glazing bars, plain rendered surrounds that are stepped at the base, and block sills on the second and ground floors.

The entrance bay slightly projects and features a frieze, with the first floor sill course breaking forward. The recessed door has four fielded panels, two of which are glazed, and is topped by a semi-circular fanlight. The door is flanked by broad rendered pilasters, with a moulded arch springing over into the frieze, which includes a keystone.

Numbers 15 to 20 on The Esplanade form a group with this building.

Local climate

18, The Esplanade 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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