BRIDOL is the British Sundial Society's Register of Fixed and Mass Dials, which gives detail and photographs of about 8000 fixed sundials and 3000 mass dials in the UK.
Some of these are in private gardens, but the majority are publicly available.
The dial is high up on a house opposite the main visitor entrance to Middleham Castle. It is fixed to the house wall at roof line and can be shadowed in part by the guttering. It appears to be of gold or cream paint on a duck-egg blue background, on a base material of cement or plaster. Some peeling reveals crumbling, lighter material underneath.
6, 7, 8 and 9am and 4 and 5pm are marked in Roman numerals; the middle hours are lost due to paint peeling. There is no noon gap. The hours are not subdivided. The gnomon root is flanked on both sides by a simplistic 8-pointed star with another star beneath the gnomon root. Four points are also present and can be regarded as stars. The gnomon root is encircled and the inside of the numbers has a two line concentric oval rim.
