Sundial, Fettes College, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 January 2004. Sundial. 1 related planning application.

Sundial, Fettes College, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
former-buttress-holly
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 January 2004
Type
Sundial
Address
Sundial, Fettes College, Edinburgh, EH4 1RA
OS grid reference
NT 234 752
Coordinates
55.96397, -3.22745
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is a 17th century stone sundial located at Fettes College in Edinburgh. It features a polyhedral dial stone set on a moulded baluster and square pedestal, which is adorned with carved heads.

Local climate

Sundial, Fettes College, Edinburgh sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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