6 and 8, Hound Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1973. House. 3 related planning applications.

6 and 8, Hound Street

WRENN ID
grim-barrel-marsh
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 October 1973
Type
House
Address
6 and 8, Hound Street, Sherborne, DT9 3AA
OS grid reference
ST 638 166
Coordinates
50.94806, -2.5153
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos 6 and 8 on Hound Street are two 19th-century buildings that stand two storeys tall with an attic. Each building features one window bay and an outer doorway. They have a tiled gabled roof with a central chimney stack. The walls are made of stone rubble, with a painted ashlar front facing Hound Street. There is a band and a plinth. The sash windows have four panes each, although the ground floor window of No 6 is missing its glazing bars. The doorways have rectangular fanlights and keystones, with the doors set back in the reveals. No 6 has a six-panelled door with the centre panels cut away and glazed, while No 8 has a modern wooden door with cover strips, studs, and elaborate hinges. There is a footscraper at the entrance. Nos 2, 6, and 8 form a group with the left-hand return of No 63 Cheap Street.

Local climate

6 and 8, 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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