Stone Pier (The Dial) is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. Commemorative pillar.
Stone Pier (The Dial)
- WRENN ID
- brooding-entrance-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Commemorative pillar
- Address
- Stone Pier (The Dial), Attleborough Road, Spooner Row
- OS grid reference
- TM 080 977
- Coordinates
- 52.5382, 1.06672
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dial is a commemorative pillar located on the north side of Attleborough Road in Wymondham, dating back to 1675. It is made of limestone and features a square section with two panels on each side. The south side of the pillar has an inscription that reads: "This Pillar was erected by the order of the sessions of the peace of Norfolk as a grateful remembrance of the charity of Sir Edwin Rich Knt who freely gave ye sume of two hundred pounds towards ye repaire of ye highway between Wymondham and Attleborough. A.D. 1675." The sundial that was originally on top of the pillar was lost in 1730. The pillar was moved to its current location by the Department of Transport in 1985.
Local climate
Stone Pier (The Dial) sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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