Sundial Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Rutland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1955. House.
Sundial Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rusted-minaret-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rutland
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1955
- Type
- House
- Address
- Sundial Cottage, Digby Drive, North Luffenham
- OS grid reference
- SK 936 032
- Coordinates
- 52.61882, -0.61807
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sundial Cottage is a house dated 1647 and restored in 1894, located on the north side of Digby Drive in North Luffenham. The building is constructed of coursed rubble stone with quoins and stone dressings, topped with a Collyweston slate roof featuring three moulded stone ridge stacks and a similar stack at the right end. The right gable is stone-coped, and there is a gabled cross wing on the left side.
The house is 2½ storeys tall. On the left gable, there is a glazed door and a 2-light casement on both floors. Moving from left to right, there is another glazed door and a 2-light casement on both floors, followed by a moulded Tudor arched doorway with a glazed door, a stone tablet above, and a sundial. This is accompanied by a 3-light stone mullion window with a hood mould and a 3-light half-dormer above it. Further along, there is a glazed door, a 2-light stone mullion window with a 4-light window above, and a 2-light dormer. The stone tablet inscribed 'Aedificat 1647: Renovat 1894' is prominently displayed, and on the left end, there are additional casements and another stone tablet inscribed 'Labora et ora 1894'.
Local climate
Sundial Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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