Sundial Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1987. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Sundial Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tenth-railing-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Sundial Cottage, Laxfield Road, Wilby
- OS grid reference
- TM 246 722
- Coordinates
- 52.30224, 1.29422
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sundial Cottage is a former farmhouse dating from the late 16th century, which was restored in 1985. The building is timber framed and plastered, topped with a thatched roof. It has two storeys and follows a three-cell, lobby entry layout. The exterior features three mid-20th century small-paned casement windows and a mid-20th century door on the left side. There is an internal stack and an 18th-century external stack to the left. Inside, the well-restored interior showcases a fully exposed frame with plain joists, with those on the attic floor set on edge. There is a blocked external doorway that retains the remains of a four-centre arched head. Additionally, two windows with triangular mullions are intact, and there is evidence of other similar windows, which is a very unusual feature.
Local climate
Sundial Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 3 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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