Sundial, Gargunnock House is a Grade B listed building in the Stirling local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971.
Sundial, Gargunnock House
- WRENN ID
- fading-lantern-curlew
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Stirling
- Constituency
- Stirling and Strathallan MP: Chris Kane (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- OS grid reference
- NS 715 944
- Coordinates
- 56.12578, -4.06836
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
A stone sundial dated 1731 stands a short distance from the south-west elevation of Gargunnock House, a separately listed building. The sundial features a copper dial inscribed with the arms of Sir James Campbell of Ardkinglass. It is referenced in John Gifford and Frank Arneil Walker’s Buildings of Scotland, Stirling and Central Scotland (2002), and the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments Scotland (RCAHMS) inventory.
Local climate
Sundial, Gargunnock House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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