5, Parsons Pool is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1973. House.
5, Parsons Pool
- WRENN ID
- leaning-joist-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- 5, Parsons Pool, Shaftesbury
- OS grid reference
- ST 863 230
- Coordinates
- 51.00711, -2.19664
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 5 Parsons Pool is a 18th-century building that stands two stories high and features a three-window façade made of rough ashlar stone. The semi-basement includes windows with stone mullions and there is a stringcourse running along the front. The windows have later sash designs, and the doorway is accessed by four steps and is topped with a hood supported by shaped brackets. The entrance has a six-panel door, with the upper two panels cut away and glazed. Some glazing bars are missing from the windows, and the building has a new slate roof. No. 5 is part of a group with Nos 1 to 13 (odd) and the garden wall to No 13, as well as Nos 14 and 16 Bell Street.
Local climate
5, Parsons Pool receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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