Sun Dial Inn is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1988. Inn.
Sun Dial Inn
- WRENN ID
- tenth-pilaster-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1988
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- Sun Dial Inn, Doctors Hill, Bentham
- OS grid reference
- SD 649 694
- Coordinates
- 54.11942, -2.53702
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Sun Dial Inn is an inn dating from around 1830, although it has origins from the 17th century. It features painted watershot masonry and a slate roof, and is two storeys high with a double front. The central entrance has a plain surround set on chamfered blocks, with a door that was added around 1980. There are two windows on each storey, also with plain surrounds, and these are 1980 sashes without glazing bars. Prominently displayed in the center of the upper floor is a painted sundial, likely from the mid-18th century, inscribed with the names John and Alice Cumberland, and featuring an iron gnomon. The building has gable end ridge stacks, and at the rear, there are remains of a late 17th century two-light chamfered mullioned window.
Local climate
Sun Dial Inn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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