Sundial, Woodhall House, Woodhall Road, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 December 1979. Sundial, garden wall.

Sundial, Woodhall House, Woodhall Road, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
lone-gateway-moth
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South West MP: Dr Scott Arthur (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 December 1979
Type
Sundial, garden wall
OS grid reference
NT 197 683
Coordinates
55.90131, -3.28516
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The sundial at Woodhall House on Woodhall Road dates back to 1717. It features a polyhedron head and has a plate that reads "Made by John Justice and gifted to Woodhall anno 1717," which originally belonged to the sundial but is now located on the sundial in front of the house. There is also an 18th century garden wall nearby. The sundial in front of the house has recently been damaged and is now headless.

Local climate

Sundial, Woodhall House, Woodhall Road, 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 78% 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 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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