5 and 6 is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. Cottages.

5 and 6

WRENN ID
mired-grate-onyx
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 January 1956
Type
Cottages
Address
5 and 6, Poxwell
OS grid reference
SY 742 843
Coordinates
50.65793, -2.36582
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos. 5 and 6 are a pair of semi-detached cottages, originally built as a school in 1843. They feature dressed limestone walls and a thatched roof with gable ends, including a central gabled projection at the front. Stone stacks with cornices are located at the gable ends. The cottages are 1½ storeys high and have four windows; the outer ground floor windows consist of three lights, while the remaining windows have two lights. The windows are wood casements with glazing bars, and the ground floor windows have ashlar stone voussoirs. Eyebrow dormers are present above the outer windows, and there are two two-light casements in the central gable.

The entrance to No. 5 is located to the right of the center and features a wood door with an upper half glazed panel, dating from the 20th century. No. 6 has a single-storey wing at the rear with a rendered stack on the gable end and includes two and three-light casements. The doorway on the side wall has two leaf glazed doors, also from the 20th century. A projecting thatch porch canopy is supported by wooden posts.

Local climate

5 and 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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