409, Pound Road is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1961. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

409, Pound Road

WRENN ID
twelfth-brick-kestrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 July 1961
Type
Cottage
Address
409, Pound Road, Thornford, DT7 6QB
OS grid reference
ST 603 130
Coordinates
50.91582, -2.56479
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 409 is a detached cottage located on Pound Road. The building has a rear range dating from the 17th century and a front addition built at right angles in the early 19th century. The walls are made of rubble stone, with the front wall rendered. It features a thatch roof with gable ends and has brick stacks on the left and right gables, as well as on the rear ridge. The cottage is two storeys high and has two windows on the front range facing the road. These include 3-light wooden casements with wooden cills. On the left side of the ground floor, there is an early 19th-century sash window with glazing bars and a flush wooden frame, while the right side has a small 19th-century sash window with vertical glazing bars. The front door, located to the left of centre, is a plank door with two top lights, framed by square ashlar stone jambs and a stone lintel. The rear range features stone gable copings and brick stacks, and it also has two storeys with two windows: one with 2-light 20th-century metal casements and another with 19th-century iron casements. There is a blocked doorway on the south wall.

Local climate

409, Pound Road receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% 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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