Sundial 20 Yards South West of Chilham Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 August 1984. Sundial.
Sundial 20 Yards South West of Chilham Castle
- WRENN ID
- keen-niche-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 August 1984
- Type
- Sundial
- OS grid reference
- TR 066 534
- Coordinates
- 51.24263, 0.95982
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century sundial located 20 yards southwest of Chilham Castle. It features a stone and metal plaque with a fluted twisted stem on an octagonal base, topped with a reused medieval capital. The plaque is inscribed with "Thomas Wright, Instrument maker to H.M. George II."
Local climate
Sundial 20 Yards South West of Chilham Castle receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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