Guide Post Opposite Number 1 South View Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. Guide post.
Guide Post Opposite Number 1 South View Cottage
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-railing-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1987
- Type
- Guide post
- Address
- Guide Post Opposite Number 1 South View Cottage, Hamsterley
- OS grid reference
- NZ 119 310
- Coordinates
- 54.6743, -1.81617
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The guide post opposite No. 1 South View Cottage in Hamsterley is a cast iron structure, likely dating from the third quarter of the 19th century. It stands approximately 1.7 metres high and features a round post topped with a ball finial. On the west side, it displays a low relief inscription reading 'BARNARD CASTLE 12 MILE' and 'WOODLAND 4 1/2'. The south-east side indicates distances to 'BISHOP AUCKLAND 7 1/4 MILES', 'WEST AUCKLAND 5', and 'EVENWOOD 5 1/2', with these signs secured to the post by bolts and flanges. This guide post is similar to one located in Witton le Wear, Crook, and Hunwick.
Local climate
Guide Post Opposite Number 1 South View Cottage receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings