Medway Cottage Sundial Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1952. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Medway Cottage Sundial Cottage

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cotswold
Constituency
North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 January 1952
Type
Cottage
Address
Medway Cottage Sundial Cottage, A433, Bibury, GL7 5ND
OS grid reference
SP 111 067
Coordinates
51.75898, -1.83958
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Sundial Cottage and Medway Cottage are two attached houses located on the north side of the A433 in Bibury. They were built in the mid to late 18th century, with later 18th-century additions. The houses are constructed from coursed rubble limestone and feature rebuilt rubble and artificial stone chimneys, topped with a stone slate roof.

The front of the central block has a two-window arrangement, with all windows being 2-light recessed chamfered mullioned casements. There are two doorways with chamfered openings grouped at the center; the left doorway has a gabled porch and a plank door, while the right features a 20th-century glazed door. Above the doorways is a diagonally set square stone sundial with an iron gnomon. The roof has two gabled dormers and two chimneys mounted on the ridge. The end additions have mixed casement fenestration, with those on Medway Cottage featuring timber lintels. The rear of the houses is mostly blank, except for two 20th-century upper floor casements on Medway Cottage. The interiors have not been inspected.

Local climate

Medway Cottage Sundial Cottage receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 2007
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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