Sundial Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 July 1986. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Sundial Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- blind-footing-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 July 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Sundial Farmhouse, Boyton, BA12 0SZ
- OS grid reference
- ST 937 408
- Coordinates
- 51.16676, -2.09072
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sundial Farmhouse is a late 17th-century farmhouse that has been altered in the late 18th century and is now a detached house. It is constructed from limestone rubble stone and features a tiled roof with coped verges and brick stacks. The building is two stories high with a four-windowed front. To the left of the center, there is a six-panelled door set in a moulded architrave, which is topped by a pedimented porch supported by Doric columns. To the left of the door is a tripartite sash window, and to the right are two tripartite sashes that were enlarged in the 1960s.
On the first floor, there are four 12-pane sash windows, and above the door, there is a stone sundial with the inscription "17 RWS 75." The left side of the building has a three-light casement window on the ground floor and a two-light casement on the first floor. The rear of the house features a 20th-century glazed door that has been inserted into a former three-light recessed chamfered mullioned window, along with a two-light casement to the right in a blocked doorway and a three-light casement in a former mullioned window. The first floor has two two-light casements and one three-light casement, all inserted into former mullioned windows during the 1960s.
Inside, the farmhouse has an open fireplace with a timber lintel on stone jambs in the west rooms, and an 18th-century dog-leg staircase with two turned balusters per tread, a ramped handrail, and turned newels. The stair hall features reset 17th-century panelling with an arabesque frieze. The drawing room includes a door with six fielded panels and a marble fireplace with a mural above it, which is framed by a painted eared architrave depicting an 18th-century landscape that was recently uncovered in 1985.
Local climate
Sundial Farmhouse receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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