Sundial House is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. House. 5 related planning applications.
Sundial House
- WRENN ID
- odd-obsidian-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Sundial House, 79, Old Dover Road, CT1 3DB
- OS grid reference
- TR 154 570
- Coordinates
- 51.27161, 1.08786
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sundial House is an 18th-century building on the north-east side of Old Dover Road. It is two storeys high and has a stuccoed exterior. The roof is tiled and hipped. The front features three casement windows and a central sundial. A canted bay window is present on the left-hand side of the ground floor. The right-hand side of the ground floor has two mullioned and transomed casement windows, and a doorcase with a vestigial hood supported by console brackets. A studded door is also present. The building forms a group with numbers 77 to 81A (odd).
Local climate
Sundial House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 — 2 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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