Sundial Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 February 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Sundial Cottage
- WRENN ID
- crooked-brass-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 February 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Sundial Cottage, Blackford Way, Charlton Horethorne, DT9 4NS
- OS grid reference
- ST 662 237
- Coordinates
- 51.01211, -2.48234
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sundial Cottage is a cottage dated 1765, situated in Charlton Horethorne. It is constructed of local stone, cut and squared, with clay double Roman tiles to the roof and brick end chimney stacks. The cottage follows an 'L' plan, originally comprising three bays over two storeys, with a 20th-century one-bay extension added to the southwest corner. The windows are steel casements set within original openings; the ground floor windows have deep stone lintols with segmental arched recesses, and timber lintols above. A plain boarded door is located between the second and third bays, sheltered by a moulded flat stone hood supported on shaped brackets. Above the door is a projecting plaque displaying a sundial, incised with "Robert Penny 1765." A modern extension replicates the style and window motif of the original building. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Sundial Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 4 transactions since 1998
- 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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