Alexandra House Orchard Brothers is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1994. Shop, house.
Alexandra House Orchard Brothers
- WRENN ID
- tattered-gravel-fern
- 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
- Shop, house
- Address
- Alexandra House Orchard Brothers, Victoria Road, Freshwater
- OS grid reference
- SZ 341 861
- Coordinates
- 50.67412, -1.51826
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Alexandra House, also known as Orchard Brothers, is a shop and house built around 1865. It was purpose-built as a grocer's shop with adjoining living accommodation. The building features polychrome brickwork, combining yellow brick with red brick dressings. The roof is partly covered with slate and partly with modern pantiles, and it has a brick eaves cornice.
This two-storey building is roughly triangular in shape. The corner section has four sash windows with triangular tops and an original six-bay shopfront that includes pilasters and two arches. The elevation facing Victoria Road has six triangular-headed windows and the original shopfront. Alexandra House features a four-panelled door and an integral extension with six sash windows and one cambered sash window on the ground floor. Bedbury Lane has four windows and a shopfront adorned with a floral motif. The building is noted for being an unaltered example of a High Victorian shop.
Local climate
Alexandra House Orchard Brothers receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% 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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