Milepost Beside Cottage by Drive to Whemleyburn is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1986. Milepost.
Milepost Beside Cottage by Drive to Whemleyburn
- WRENN ID
- hollow-column-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 January 1986
- Type
- Milepost
- Address
- Milepost Beside Cottage by Drive to Whemleyburn, A 697, Longhorsley
- OS grid reference
- NZ 156 939
- Coordinates
- 55.23923, -1.7556
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a milepost located beside a cottage by the drive to Whemleyburn, likely dating from the early 20th century and made by Smith Paterson Ltd. of Blaydon. It is constructed from cast iron and painted white and black. The milepost features a shield-shaped plaque displaying the distances to Cornhill (38 miles) and Morpeth (6 miles), set on a circular shaft. Below this, there is a lower rectangular plaque indicating Wooler (25 miles) and a maker's plate underneath. The overall height of the milepost is 0.9 metres.
Local climate
Milepost Beside Cottage by Drive to Whemleyburn 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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