The Pynion End is a Grade II* listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. A C14 Monastic building.
The Pynion End
- WRENN ID
- heavy-bronze-pigeon
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1956
- Type
- Monastic building
- Address
- The Pynion End, Church Street, Abbotsbury
- OS grid reference
- SY 577 851
- Coordinates
- 50.66444, -2.59869
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Pynion End is a gable-end of a monastic building located at the southeast corner of the former cloister, dating from the late 14th century. The gable was restored in 1846 and features an ashlar outer face on the east side, while the inner face is made of squared and coursed rubble stone. It has diagonal buttresses and a central gable buttress with set-offs and a plinth moulding. The stump of the south side wall remains, including a door-jamb that leads to an undercroft. The internal floor level is half a metre above the current ground level. There is a ground-floor fireplace with ovolo-moulded jambs and a square head, and a smaller fireplace on the first floor to the right of centre, which has moulded stone jambs and a segmental rubble-stone head. A 12th-century stone is set into the back of the ground floor fireplace. The site is also designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Local climate
The Pynion End 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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