Sundial Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1968. House.
Sundial Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fossil-tower-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Kesteven
- Constituency
- South Holland and The Deepings MP: Sir John Hayes (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 October 1968
- Type
- House
- Address
- Sundial Cottage, Church Lane, West Deeping
- OS grid reference
- TF 110 086
- Coordinates
- 52.66427, -0.35998
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sundial Cottage is a house that dates back to the 17th century, with alterations made in the mid-18th century, and further changes in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed from coursed limestone rubble, featuring ashlar quoins and dressings, and has a concrete tiled roof with stone-coped gables. The house has two gable ashlar stacks, with the left one having paired shafts and a cornice.
The building is two stories high and has a three-bay front. The central entrance features a 20th-century six-panel door, which is framed by a contemporary pilastered and pedimented doorcase. On either side of the door are single 19th-century tripartite plain sash windows, and on the first floor, there are two similar windows.
Prominently displayed in the center of the front is a repositioned ashlar sundial, which has scrolls on all four sides, with side scrolls that contain the date 1719. The roof features two gabled dormers, each with two-light casements that have rendered cheeks.
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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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