2, Hound Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1973. House.

2, Hound Street

WRENN ID
silent-portal-elm
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 October 1973
Type
House
Address
2, Hound Street, Sherborne
OS grid reference
ST 638 166
Coordinates
50.94792, -2.51542
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No 2 Hound Street is a building from the 18th century with a front that has been altered. It has two storeys and an attic, featuring four window bays. The roof is gabled and covered with plaintiles, and there are two dormers. The front is made of coursed rubble, and it has four modern two-light casement windows with small panels on the first floor. Below these, there is a modern plate glass shop window on the left and a plate glass shop front on the right. A rectangular stack is located at the right gable end. At the back, there is a wing made of stone rubble with a plaintile roof, which includes four modern casements with small panes above, as well as two windows, a door, and a vehicular door below. This building is listed for its group value with Nos 2, 6, and 8, which form a group with the left-hand return to No 63 Cheap Street.

Local climate

2, Hound Street 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 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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