Milepost Opposite Besom Barn Restaurant is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. A C20 Milepost.
Milepost Opposite Besom Barn Restaurant
- WRENN ID
- fallow-pillar-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Milepost
- Address
- Milepost Opposite Besom Barn Restaurant, A697, Longframlington
- OS grid reference
- NU 123 022
- Coordinates
- 55.31422, -1.80688
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a milepost, likely from the early 20th century, made by Smith Paterson Ltd. of Blaydon. It is constructed from cast iron and painted in white and black. The milepost features a shield-shaped plaque that displays the distances to Cornhill (32 miles) and Morpeth (12 miles), set on a circular shaft. Below this, there is a lower rectangular plaque indicating Wooler (19 miles) and a maker's plate underneath. The overall height of the milepost is 0.7 metres.
Local climate
Milepost Opposite Besom Barn Restaurant receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
- No related consent applications matched
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