Sundial, Craigtoun Park is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 June 1979. Sundial.

Sundial, Craigtoun Park

WRENN ID
proud-postern-sepia
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 June 1979
Type
Sundial
OS grid reference
NO 479 144
Coordinates
56.31917, -2.84236
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The sundial in Craigtoun Park dates from the 17th or very early 18th century. It features a two-step square base and plinth, with an octagonal shaft adorned with various dials, as well as reliefs of a thistle, rose, and fleur-de-lys. The sundial has a block capital with raked facet dials, a cubical lower head that includes hollow hemisphere and heart dials, and a top section with gnomons on most faces.

Local climate

Sundial, Craigtoun Park receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% 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 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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