Sundial Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. A Restoration House. 4 related planning applications.
Sundial Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- fallen-bonework-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1981
- Type
- House
- Period
- Restoration
- Address
- Sundial Farmhouse, Shelton Green, Shelton and Hardwick, NR15 2SQ
- OS grid reference
- TM 236 905
- Coordinates
- 52.46714, 1.29162
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sundial Farmhouse is a 17th to 18th century timber-framed house that has been plastered. The west end dates from the 17th century and features a steep pantile roof with gabled ends. The house has one storey and an attic, with an internal brick chimney stack located at the east end, where it meets a two-storey wing from the 17th to 18th century. This wing has a higher pantile roof with gabled ends, and the east end is faced with brick from the 18th century, featuring a tumbled brick gable that contains a chimney stack. The building has four windows, with the right-hand side having four sash windows, while the remaining windows are from the 19th century and include two, three, and four-light casements.
Local climate
Sundial Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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