Sundial Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1984. A C19 House.
Sundial Cottage
- WRENN ID
- inner-cornice-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Sundial Cottage, Dent, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 727 865
- Coordinates
- 54.27346, -2.42036
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sundial Cottage is a small house, likely built in 1863, as indicated by the date on the sundial. The building features roughly-coursed thin sandstone rubble with regular quoins and has a slate roof. It has a double-depth, double-fronted plan with a short back wing. The cottage stands two storeys tall and has two symmetrical windows. In the center, there is a small gabled stone-slab porch, and above this is a large square sundial with Roman numerals and the date 1863. The windows on both floors are 16-pane designs, now top-hung casements that imitate sash windows. The house has gable chimneys, and the left gable wall includes a lean-to porch alongside a small gabled outhouse, with windows similar to those at the front. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Sundial Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 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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