20, Market Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. Cottage.
20, Market Street
- WRENN ID
- other-steel-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 20, Market Street, Abbotsbury
- OS grid reference
- SY 576 853
- Coordinates
- 50.66638, -2.60024
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 20 Market Street is an attached cottage that dates from the early 19th century. It features rubble-stone walls and a slate roof, with 20th-century brick stacks positioned left of center on the party ridge and at the right-hand gable. The building is two storeys high and has two windows, which are 3-light wooden casements from the 20th century. The front door is centrally located and is a plank door with a wooden frame and a wooden lintel above it. The left-hand room serves as shop premises. There is also an attached house at right angles on Back Street, constructed with the same materials and number of storeys. This house has two windows with wooden casements that include glazing bars and wooden lintels above them. The central door is a 19th-century plank door with a wooden lintel above. This description includes No 2 Back Street.
Local climate
20, 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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