Milepost 40 Metres North of Entrance to Heckley House is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1987. Milepost.
Milepost 40 Metres North of Entrance to Heckley House
- WRENN ID
- waning-tracery-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 August 1987
- Type
- Milepost
- OS grid reference
- NU 185 161
- Coordinates
- 55.43904, -1.70824
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This milepost, likely from the mid-19th century, is located 40 metres north of the entrance to Heckley House. It is made of cast iron and is painted white with black figures. The milepost has a triangular shape with an open back. The inscriptions indicate distances to Alnwick (2 miles) and Belford (12 miles), with the figures raised except for the second figure.
Local climate
Milepost 40 Metres North of Entrance to Heckley House 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 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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