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The dial is on a brown cuboid stone with chamfered corners, set into a corner of the house walls at the level of the first floor window sills (best seen from the top of a bus!). The stone is angled at perhaps 30 deg to the SW facing wall and 60 to the SE, giving a direct south dial face. The motto across the top is ’Grata superveniet / quae non sperabitur hora’, translated by Gatty as ’The hour that is not hoped for is most grateful when it comes’, from Horace Ep.i. 4,14. Mrs Gatty also says that the preceding line ’Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremam’ (Think every dawn of day to be thy last) is used as a motto on another dial on the same house (SRN 8076), though it is now almost illegible. Gatty describes the house as 17th century and named Denburn, but the Museum gives the date as 1719.
The upright hour numerals are VI - + - IV - VI, with hour lines to a full sun face around the gnomon root, and short half hour lines with three-dot terminations. The gnomon is a solid plate with a wavy lower edge.
