Sundial To East Side Of Terraced Garden, Earlshall is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 October 1973. Sundial.

Sundial To East Side Of Terraced Garden, Earlshall

WRENN ID
sombre-plaster-weasel
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 October 1973
Type
Sundial
OS grid reference
NO 465 210
Coordinates
56.37878, -2.86728
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The sundial located on the east side of the terraced garden at Earlshall is a patched and restored structure that incorporates various earlier fragments from the 17th century. It underwent significant restoration, likely around 1890. The sundial features an octagonal base and capital that are of a different date than the earlier octagonal base, which has scallop detailing and is now cemented to a 19th century shaft. This shaft has deeply undercut angle hollows and attached shafts on a cusped base with a geometrical design. The original dial and gnomon are missing and were replaced in 1983 with an early 18th century copper dial and gnomon.

Local climate

Sundial To East Side Of Terraced Garden, Earlshall receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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