Sundial Approximately Five Metres from South Angle of Lauderdale House is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1999. Sundial.

Sundial Approximately Five Metres from South Angle of Lauderdale House

WRENN ID
muffled-gable-sedge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Camden
Constituency
Hampstead and Highgate MP: Tulip Siddiq (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 January 1999
Type
Sundial
OS grid reference
TQ 287 872
Coordinates
51.56913, -0.14352
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This sundial, dated 1893, is located approximately five metres from the south angle of Lauderdale House in Waterlow Park, Camden. It is made of stone and features a marble dial plate. The sundial has a rectangular base with a pillar that supports a rectangular plate marked out as a sundial. There is a plaque inscribed with the words, "This dial plate is on a level with the top of the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral."

Local climate

Sundial Approximately Five Metres from South Angle of Lauderdale House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% 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 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% 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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