Pulpit Rock is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1976. Villa. 1 related planning application.
Pulpit Rock
- WRENN ID
- fading-loggia-mist
- 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
- Villa
- Address
- Pulpit Rock, the Pitts, Ventnor, PO38 1NT
- OS grid reference
- SZ 572 781
- Coordinates
- 50.59993, -1.19199
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pulpit Rock is a villa built around 1850, featuring two storeys constructed of coursed rubble with yellow stone rubble bands and dressed quoins. The first floor has an ashlar sill band, and the hipped slate roof has flat eaves and corniced chimneys.
On the east entrance side, there are four windows, with the rightmost window set in a break and all featuring glazing bar sashes. A projecting low gabled porch has a round arch opening, adorned with gargoyle grotesque heads below the corner brackets of the gable. The garden front facing south has a sill band that returns with similar grotesque heads at the corners. It includes four glazing bar sashes with louvred shutters on the first floor and four French windows with flush voussoirs to flat arches on the ground floor.
The west front features a two-storey bow on the right and a single window break on the left. The villa is set on a terrace within spacious grounds.
Local climate
Pulpit Rock 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1999
- 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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