Sundial Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1952. Cottage.
Sundial Cottage
- WRENN ID
- vacant-transept-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1952
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Sundial Cottage, Duntisbourne Abbots
- OS grid reference
- SO 970 078
- Coordinates
- 51.76934, -2.04441
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sundial Cottage is a former row of two houses that has been converted into one house. The building dates from the 17th century for the lower house, with an adjoining section from the early 18th century. It is constructed from coursed rubble limestone and features stone and artificial stone chimneys, topped with a plain tile roof. The cottage is single-storey with an attic and has a lean-to at the lower end.
The front has irregular window arrangements, including one two-light chamfered mullioned window without a hoodmould, a doorway with a timber lintel and a 20th-century glazed door, and several 20th-century metal windows with timber lintels. There is one roof dormer on the lower house, which has a stone ball finial, and two roof dormers on the upper house. At the lower end, there is another two-light chamfered mullioned window without a hoodmould in the attic, along with a stone sundial featuring a metal gnomon and a ball finial above it. The back of the cottage has scattered fenestration, all consisting of 20th-century metal windows with timber lintels. The cottage is included for its group value.
Local climate
Sundial Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1999
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