Sundial, St Colme House is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 June 1993.
Sundial, St Colme House
- WRENN ID
- dim-ashlar-fern
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 June 1993
- OS grid reference
- NT 182 842
- Coordinates
- 56.04411, -3.31342
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a sundial, likely dating from the 1830s, built in a Renaissance style. It stands on a three-step plinth, above which is a corniced, square pedestal supported by four balls. A horizontal dial sits on top. The design is reminiscent of 17th-century sundials at Aberdour House and Pitreavie House. The sundial was not depicted on the first edition Ordnance Survey map sheet for Fife and Kinross (1853-56).
Local climate
Sundial, St Colme House receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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