Sundial Walls and Steps in Front of Fowey Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 April 1998. Sundial.
Sundial Walls and Steps in Front of Fowey Hall
- WRENN ID
- far-vault-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Austell and Newquay MP: Noah Law (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 April 1998
- Type
- Sundial
- Address
- Sundial Walls and Steps in Front of Fowey Hall, Hanson Drive, PL23 1ET
- OS grid reference
- SX 121 515
- Coordinates
- 50.33411, -4.64087
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The sundial, walls, and steps in front of Fowey Hall were built in 1898 for Sir George Hanson. Made of granite ashlar, the structure features a vermiculated finish below a chamfered string course. The circular wall surrounds a central sundial, with semi-circular steps on either side leading down to a central landing. These steps are flanked by a low balustrade plinth, which has squat square terminal piers topped with ball finials. All walls are finished with cyma-moulded copings. The sundial itself has a tapered shaft with a cavetto twist leading up to a necking, which is topped with a bowl that has egg enrichment along its moulded cornice. This structure is included for its group value.
Local climate
Sundial Walls and Steps in Front of Fowey Hall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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