Sundial in front of the Hawk House in the E Garden is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 July 1998. Sundial.
Sundial in front of the Hawk House in the E Garden
- WRENN ID
- solitary-buttress-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wrexham
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1998
- Type
- Sundial
- Address
- Sundial in front of the Hawk House in the E Garden, Chirk Castle, Chirk
- OS grid reference
- SJ 270 379
- Coordinates
- 52.9343, -3.08619
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The stone sundial located in front of Hawk House in the east garden is designed as a well-proportioned baluster. It stands on a four-way incurved moulded base, which is placed on a circular plinth. The shaft features a necking ring and a turned circular capital that supports a brass double horizontal dial plate with a gnomon. The dial plate is engraved with the Myddleton arms, a months dial, and the equations of the natural days.
Local climate
Sundial in front of the Hawk House in the E Garden receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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