Sundial Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 January 1987. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Sundial Cottage

WRENN ID
lunar-alcove-weasel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 January 1987
Type
Cottage
Address
Sundial Cottage, Bedale Road, Hunton, Bedale, DL8 1QE
OS grid reference
SE 188 923
Coordinates
54.32599, -1.71104
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Sundial Cottage is a late 18th-century cottage located on the south side of Bedale Road in Hunton, North Yorkshire. It is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and has a stone slate roof. The cottage is two storeys and two bays wide, featuring a plinth and quoins. The windows have ashlar surrounds with straight tooling, and are four-pane sash windows. A central part-glazed door is set within an ashlar surround. Above the door is a small sundial. A brick stack is located at the left end of the cottage, and an ashlar stack is at the right end.

Local climate

Sundial Cottage receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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 1997
  • Related listed building consents — 2 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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