7 and 8, Main Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1959. Cottage.
7 and 8, Main Street
- WRENN ID
- iron-parapet-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1959
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 7 and 8, Main Street, Coombe Keynes
- OS grid reference
- SY 842 842
- Coordinates
- 50.65738, -2.22407
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 7 and 8 on Main Street are cottages that originated in the 17th century and were converted into two separate homes in the 19th century. They feature stone walls, some of which are roughcast, and have thatched roofs with brick stacks. The buildings are one storey high with attics. No. 7 has a ledged door and a ground floor that includes one horizontally sliding sash window with glazing bars. The attic contains one dormer with a similar sash window. No. 8 also has a ledged door, but this one includes a glass panel. Its ground floor has one horizontally sliding sash window with glazing bars, and the attic features one dormer with a similar sash window. There is a single-storey lean-to on the west side with a pantiled roof and a ledged door.
Local climate
7 and 8, Main Street receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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 — 3 transactions since 2007
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