The Town Pound is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. Pound. 4 related planning applications.
The Town Pound
- WRENN ID
- sheer-minaret-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole MP: Vikki Slade (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Pound
- Address
- The Town Pound, Pound Lane, Wareham Town
- OS grid reference
- SY 920 872
- Coordinates
- 50.68488, -2.11322
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Town Pound is an 18th-century structure used to hold stray and impounded animals from the town's common. It is built of brick with brick-on-edge coping and has a square plan. The entrance is located on the north-west wall. Later repairs have been made to the building.
Local climate
The Town Pound receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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