Guidepost at Junction with Greenland Road is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1987. Guidepost.
Guidepost at Junction with Greenland Road
- WRENN ID
- distant-transept-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1987
- Type
- Guidepost
- Address
- Guidepost at Junction with Greenland Road, Hamsteels Bank, Esh
- OS grid reference
- NZ 188 443
- Coordinates
- 54.79344, -1.70764
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a guidepost located at the junction with Greenland Road, dating from the early 20th century. It is made of cast iron and features both wood and iron indicators. The post is tapered and round, topped with a pyramid finial, and has mouldings both below and above the indicators and at the top. The iron indicator boards point to Lanchester, Langley Park, and Durham, while there is a wooden replacement for the indicators to Quebec and Esh Winning.
Local climate
Guidepost at Junction with Greenland Road receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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