Sundial, Bonnington House is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 January 1975. Sundial.
Sundial, Bonnington House
- WRENN ID
- still-courtyard-grove
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1975
- Type
- Sundial
- Address
- Sundial, Bonnington House, EH27 8BB
- OS grid reference
- NT 110 690
- Coordinates
- 55.90675, -3.42362
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The sundial at Bonnington House is a late 17th century ashlar sandstone obelisk dial located to the west of the house, directly aligned with the west entrance within the former walled garden. The obelisk features a polyhedron cap on an ornamental pedestal, which is set on three diamond-aligned steps. The finial of the obelisk is broken off. The polyhedron has both bowl-shaped and flat dial faces. The pedestal is adorned with bowl and heart-shaped carved cavities, flat dial faces, and an armorial plaque displaying the arms of Cunninghame of Belton and Bonnington on the north side. The gnomons are missing.
Local climate
Sundial, Bonnington House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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