Walled Garden And Sundial, Dunvegan Castle, Skye is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Sundial.
Walled Garden And Sundial, Dunvegan Castle, Skye
- WRENN ID
- rough-obsidian-merlin
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- Type
- Sundial
- OS grid reference
- NG 247 488
- Coordinates
- 57.44657, -6.58957
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The walled garden and sundial at Dunvegan Castle, likely from the 17th century, features an ashlar lectern type sundial with gnomons on the east, west, and south facets. The sundial is positioned on a low rectangular stone pedestal with slightly rounded sides and a simple corniced cap that has faintly incised linear decoration. It is located in the center of a large square walled garden, which is enclosed by rubble walling topped with stone coping.
Local climate
Walled Garden And Sundial, Dunvegan Castle, Skye sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,610 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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