Sundial 20 Metres West of Lumley Castle is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 February 1987. Sundial.
Sundial 20 Metres West of Lumley Castle
- WRENN ID
- night-groin-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- North Durham MP: Luke Akehurst (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 February 1987
- Type
- Sundial
- OS grid reference
- NZ 287 510
- Coordinates
- 54.85356, -1.55401
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The sundial located 20 metres west of Lumley Castle is a Grade II listed structure dating from 1716. It features a sandstone sundial mounted on a later white marble column and pedestal. The pedestal is corniced and includes a cyma-moulded plinth and die, with a raised border and circle on each face. The Tuscan column stands 2.0 metres high. The sundial itself is polyhedric, shaped like a sphere with 24 faceted faces, each inscribed with letters and equipped with an iron gnomon; two of the square faces are dated 1716. At the top, there is a vase with a gadrooned design and a small pineapple finial.
Local climate
Sundial 20 Metres West of Lumley Castle receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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