The Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1976. Cottage.
The Fountain
- WRENN ID
- tangled-iron-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Wight
- Constituency
- Isle of Wight East MP: Joe Robertson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 July 1976
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Fountain, Bonchurch Village Road, Ventnor
- OS grid reference
- SZ 571 780
- Coordinates
- 50.59902, -1.19405
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Fountain is a small cottage orné built around 1830, located on Bonchurch Village Road. It is two storeys high and constructed from stone rubble with tooled quoins. The cottage features a steeply pitched gable end roof that is tiled, along with pierced bargeboards. At the center, there is a pair of diagonally set red brick chimneys. On the first floor, there are two small gables with pierced bargeboards above two glazing bar casements. The ground floor has two similar casements. A large rustic porch with wooden columns and a tiled roof is present, featuring large pierced and waved bargeboards at the gable. The entrance has a studded ridged door. There is also a low link to a former coach house, which is one and a half storeys tall and has a pierced bargeboard gabled semi-dormer. The overall appearance of the building is picturesque.
Local climate
The Fountain 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
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