12, Market Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. Cottage.
12, Market Street
- WRENN ID
- leaning-chamber-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1956
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 12, Market Street, Abbotsbury
- OS grid reference
- SY 576 853
- Coordinates
- 50.66609, -2.59989
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 12 Market Street is an attached cottage dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century, with some changes to its windows. The building features coursed rubble stone walls and a slate roof with gable ends. There is a 20th-century brick chimney at the right-hand gable. The cottage stands two storeys high and has three windows, which are 20th-century, two-light wooden casements with glazing bars, and a 20th-century three-light version on the left side. The front door is located to the right of centre; it is a plank door with weatherboarding and one glass light, also from the 20th century, and has a wooden lintel above it.
Local climate
12, Market 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 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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