Garden Wall to No 6 is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1975. Garden wall.
Garden Wall to No 6
- WRENN ID
- high-spandrel-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1975
- Type
- Garden wall
- Address
- Garden Wall to No 6, West Walks Road, Dorchester
- OS grid reference
- SY 689 905
- Coordinates
- 50.71356, -2.44069
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden wall to No 6 is a Grade II listed structure located on West Walks Road. It features a keystone inscribed "HB 1851" and is constructed from Portland or Ridgeway hammer-dressed stone. The wall has a pitched slate roof with overhanging eaves and elaborate bargeboarding at the gable ends. It has a T-shaped plan and stands two storeys tall. The casements have arched heads and glazing bars set within square chamfered openings. There is a porch with a bargeboarded gable end. The garden wall itself is made of hammer-dressed stone topped with a moulded and coped ashlar. It includes a planked door in chamfered openings, flanked by two piers with coped tops and plain recessed panels. Nos 1 to 6, including the wall between Nos 5 and 6, form a group.
Local climate
Garden Wall to No 6 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 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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