Sundial in the Old Vicarage Garden is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 July 1986. Sundial.

Sundial in the Old Vicarage Garden

WRENN ID
narrow-landing-soot
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Leeds
Constituency
Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 July 1986
Type
Sundial
Address
Sundial in the Old Vicarage Garden, the Avenue, Harewood
OS grid reference
SE 323 449
Coordinates
53.89975, -1.50844
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The sundial in the Old Vicarage garden, dated 1688, is made of ashlar and features a column surrounded by a square dial plate with casement and cyma moulding. The dial plate is engraved with the date and the name "Wm Brown." It also has a small copper dial that bears the maker's name "GOODALL ABERFORD."

Local climate

Sundial in the Old Vicarage Garden receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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