Walled Garden And Sundial, Grandhome Policies is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 January 1981. Garden, sundial.

Walled Garden And Sundial, Grandhome Policies

WRENN ID
keen-crypt-grain
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeen City
Constituency
Aberdeen North MP: Kirsty Blackman (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 January 1981
Type
Garden, sundial
OS grid reference
NJ 898 119
Coordinates
57.19853, -2.16919
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The walled garden and sundial at Grandhome Policies features drystone granite walls that stand 8 feet high on the north and east sides, with a brick inner skin that rises an additional 2 feet. There are lower rubble walls on either side and running across the garden. The sundial, erected in 1923, consists of an old obelisk-type cap, topped with a modern ball-finial and mounted on a modern shaft.

Local climate

Walled Garden And Sundial, Grandhome Policies receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% 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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