6, The Square is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. House.

6, The Square

WRENN ID
grey-lintel-solstice
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 January 1956
Type
House
Address
6, The Square, Athelhampton and Puddletown
OS grid reference
SY 758 943
Coordinates
50.74869, -2.34352
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

6 The Square is a house located at the right end of a terrace, likely built in the 18th century. It features plastered walls and a thatched roof, with a shared brick stack on the left end and a plastered stack on the right end. The house has two storeys. The entrance is a panelled door situated beneath a shallow gabled hood supported by shaped brackets and timber pilasters. On the ground floor, there is one sash window and two windows with small top-hung lights, all of which have glazing bars. The first floor contains three plain casements. At the back, there is a two-storeyed wing that matches the main construction.

Local climate

6, The Square receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% 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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