Sundial, Mount Stuart is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1971. Sundial.
Sundial, Mount Stuart
- WRENN ID
- broken-rubble-finch
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1971
- Type
- Sundial
- OS grid reference
- NS 108 590
- Coordinates
- 55.78786, -5.01859
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The sundial at Mount Stuart is a 17th-century obelisk made of grey sandstone ashlar. It features a square-plan pedestal with a circular base and a square shaft that is divided into five compartments on each side. The sundial has an octagonal capital with sloping facets that connect the shaft to a tapering finial. It includes regularly placed metal gnomons and has inscribed sun motifs on the pedestal facets. The shaft compartments contain heart-shaped, triangular, cut-shaped, and circular sinkings, while reclining and proclining dials are positioned above and below the capital.
Local climate
Sundial, Mount Stuart sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,740 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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