Sundial situated in the walled garden of Brinkburn Bothy is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. Sundial. 1 related planning application.

Sundial situated in the walled garden of Brinkburn Bothy

WRENN ID
under-plinth-fern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Sundial
Address
Sundial situated in the walled garden of Brinkburn Bothy, Longframlington, NE65 8AR
OS grid reference
NZ 116 990
Coordinates
55.28581, -1.81882
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The sundial, dating from the mid-19th century, is situated in the walled garden of Brinkburn Bothy. It was created by B. Armstrong of Ovingham, who signed the shaft. The sundial is made of sandstone and features a brass gnoma. It has a circular base that supports an octagonal shaft adorned with sunk trefoil-headed panels, leading up to a cuboctahedral block with fourteen faces. Each face, except for the top and bottom, has a separate dial, and the structure is topped with a ball finial on a tapering circular foot. Six of the twelve brass gnoma are missing. Each dial face measures twelve and three-quarter inches across and is marked with hourly Arabic numerals and lines, though some faces are weathered. The sundial was commissioned by the Fenwick family during the restoration of Brinkworth Priory and was originally installed at the Manor House there. Lancelot Fenwick later moved it to High House in 1952. It was listed in that location in 1988, and in 2015, the sundial was relocated to its current position.

Local climate

Sundial situated in the walled garden of Brinkburn Bothy receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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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