The Pound at Court Pound 15m North of the House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1984. Pound.

The Pound at Court Pound 15m North of the House

WRENN ID
muffled-cobble-bone
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 December 1984
Type
Pound
Address
The Pound at Court Pound 15m North of the House, High Street, Langton Matravers
OS grid reference
SY 991 788
Coordinates
50.6091, -2.01306
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Pound at Court Pound, located 15 meters north of the house, is a former pound from the 18th century. It features dry stone walls that enclose a partly paved area. It is said to have been used for donkeys that strayed from local quarry workings, according to the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. This site is a property of the National Trust and is noted as RCHM Monument 31 in Dorset Volume II.

Local climate

The Pound at Court Pound 15m North of the House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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