Sundial, Central Avenue, Walled Garden, Ellon Castle is a Grade A listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. Sundial.

Sundial, Central Avenue, Walled Garden, Ellon Castle

WRENN ID
sheer-rubblework-root
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
Gordon and Buchan MP: Harriet Cross (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
16 April 1971
Type
Sundial
OS grid reference
NJ 959 306
Coordinates
57.36646, -2.06815
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The sundial at Ellon Castle, dating from around 1700 to 1715, features a facet-headed dial with hollows on all 24 faces. It has a ball finial and a sculptured square shaft, supported by a moulded base. The sundial is set on a podium consisting of three moulded steps.

Local climate

Sundial, Central Avenue, Walled Garden, Ellon Castle receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% 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 0.2°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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