6 and 8, Market Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
6 and 8, Market Street
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-rotunda-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1956
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 6 and 8, Market Street, Abbotsbury, DT3 4JR
- OS grid reference
- SY 577 853
- Coordinates
- 50.66592, -2.59968
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These are two attached cottages, located on Market Street in Abbotsbury and dating to the early 19th century. The cottages have walls of coursed rubble stone, using a mix of ironstone and limestone, and are topped with a slate roof featuring gable ends. Tall 19th-century brick stacks are visible at each gable, with decorative cappings. The cottages are two storeys high. Each cottage has windows; No. 6 has a 3-light wooden casement with glazing bars and dressed stone voussoirs, while No. 8 has a 4-light wooden casement of similar construction. A plank door, with a keyed stone lintel (inserted in the 20th century), is positioned approximately at the centre of the range for No. 6. No. 8 has a studded door with ornamental strap hinges, also a 20th-century addition, at its left-hand end. These cottages were originally part of a range of six cottages situated south-east of the local school.
Local climate
6 and 8, Market Street receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 — 3 transactions since 1996
- 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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