Sundial Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Sundial Cottage
- WRENN ID
- blind-finial-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard MP: Alex Mayer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Sundial Cottage, Sewell Lane, Houghton Regis, LU6 1RP
- OS grid reference
- SP 993 228
- Coordinates
- 51.89539, -0.55704
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sundial Cottage is a 17th-century timber-framed cottage located on Sewell Lane in Houghton Regis. The frame is filled with whitewashed brick. The building is one storey high with attics, and it has a clay tile roof with one gabled dormer window. There are two casement windows.
Local climate
Sundial Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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