Nos 7 and 8 Including Water Pump Adjoining No 7 to the South is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. Cottage.
Nos 7 and 8 Including Water Pump Adjoining No 7 to the South
- WRENN ID
- fossil-hinge-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1956
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- ST 659 042
- Coordinates
- 50.83688, -2.48482
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 7 and 8 are a pair of cottages dating from the mid 19th century. They feature rubble walls with ashlar dressings and have gable-ended slate roofs. The left side has a rendered octagonal stack, while the right side has a recent brick replacement. The facade is symmetrical and consists of one and a half storeys with a four-window range. The outer bays have three-light casements with diamond-pane leaded lights. The upper floor has a central six-light window with a returned label, and the ground floor has a central recessed porch that contains four-light stone mullioned windows with diamond-pane cast-iron lights. A central ashlar supporting pier is present, and the entire porch features a returned label. The doors are plain wooden. Adjacent to the south is a water pump housed in a wooden casing topped with a ball finial.
Local climate
Nos 7 and 8 Including Water Pump Adjoining No 7 to the South 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 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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