Sundial in walled garden at Pittodrie House, Chapel of Garioch is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 August 2018.
Sundial in walled garden at Pittodrie House, Chapel of Garioch
- WRENN ID
- proud-belfry-clover
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Gordon and Buchan MP: Harriet Cross (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 August 2018
- OS grid reference
- NJ 700 237
- Coordinates
- 57.3034, -2.49901
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The walled garden at Pittodrie House in Chapel of Garioch is a large, rectangular structure built in the early 19th century as part of improvements to the estate. It features high granite rubble walls with coped tops, and the south wall is slightly lower than the others, with convex curves at each corner.
On the north wall, slightly off-centre to the west, there is a lean-to glasshouse. This glasshouse has a coursed rubble base and is topped with two courses of brick, featuring rectangular panes of glass set in timber frames. Next to the glasshouse, there is an opening in the wall with a decorative iron gate. Additionally, the south wall has a central entrance opening, also with a decorative iron gate.
In the middle of the garden, there is a circular flower bed bordered with moulded stone. To the west of this bed stands a horizontal sundial, which is mounted on a shaped baluster pedestal with a square plinth base.
Local climate
Sundial in walled garden at Pittodrie House, Chapel of Garioch 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 lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 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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