Sundial, Glassmount House is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 September 1973.
Sundial, Glassmount House
- WRENN ID
- under-flagstone-mint
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 September 1973
- OS grid reference
- NT 246 885
- Coordinates
- 56.08377, -3.21186
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a small, probably early 18th-century sundial, originally located at Glassmount House. It consists of a cubic body resting on a three-tier plinth. The dial faces have been eroded, giving way to a stepped cap with scalloped carving. The gnomon, or finial, is now missing. The sundial is situated near the 19th-century Glassmount House, but is close to a dovecot which is likely of 18th-century date. The house, dovecot, conservatory, and steading are listed separately.
Local climate
Sundial, Glassmount House receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% 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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