Sundial, Old Tolbooth, Old Pier, Stonehaven is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 August 1972. Sundial.
Sundial, Old Tolbooth, Old Pier, Stonehaven
- WRENN ID
- wild-slate-curlew
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1972
- Type
- Sundial
- Address
- Sundial, Old Tolbooth, Old Pier, Stonehaven, AB39 2JU
- OS grid reference
- NO 878 855
- Coordinates
- 56.96064, -2.202
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The sundial at Old Tolbooth on the Old Pier in Stonehaven dates from 1710. It is a free-standing structure featuring a cubic sandstone head with chamfered angles. The horizontal dial is complemented by a wrought-iron gnomon. The sundial has a short, square-section shaft, which also has chamfered angles and is offset below the head.
Local climate
Sundial, Old Tolbooth, Old Pier, Stonehaven receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% 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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