Sundial, Churchyard Gate, Kirkbean is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 June 1986.
Sundial, Churchyard Gate, Kirkbean
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-keep-storm
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1986
- OS grid reference
- NX 979 592
- Coordinates
- 54.91718, -3.5936
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The sundial, located at the churchyard gate in Kirkbean village, was made in 1826. It features a slate dial and a bronze gnomon raised on a fluted red ashlar column with a plinth. The sundial is inscribed with the words "Robert Palmer fecit, 1826."
Local climate
Sundial, Churchyard Gate, Kirkbean sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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 0.3°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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