Sundial Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1968. House. 3 related planning applications.
Sundial Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ghost-loft-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1968
- Type
- House
- Address
- Sundial Cottage, 1, Station Road, Little Houghton, NN7 1AJ
- OS grid reference
- SP 803 597
- Coordinates
- 52.23013, -0.8252
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sundial Cottage is a house, originally three cottages, dating to the late 17th century, and altered in the 20th century. It is constructed of coursed squared limestone, banded with ironstone, with a slate roof and brick end and ridge stacks. The building is arranged as three units and has two storeys and an attic, with a four-window front. The gable end facing Station Road has a 6-panel part-glazed door to the right, set within a 20th-century porch. There are 2-light casement windows to the ground, first, and attic floors, all with wooden lintels. A large rectangular limestone sundial is set into the gable. The front to the left, which is four bays wide, has a 20th-century door to the left of centre, also with a wooden lintel, and 2-light casements to the ground and first floors, again with wooden lintels, except for a central ground floor 4-light window. Blocked circular windows with limestone surrounds are found in the left end gable. The building features quoins and stone-coped gables with kneelers. Inside, there are chamfered spine beams, some with ogee stops, and a large open fireplace with an ogee stop-chamfered bressumer and smoke cupboards on either side.
Local climate
Sundial Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 1 transaction since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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