Milestone Built Into Roadside Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 May 1988. A C19 Milestone.
Milestone Built Into Roadside Wall
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-joist-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 May 1988
- Type
- Milestone
- Address
- Milestone Built Into Roadside Wall, Front Street
- OS grid reference
- NY 917 692
- Coordinates
- 55.0177, -2.1308
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a milestone built into a roadside wall in Wall Village, dating from the early 19th century. It is made of sandstone and is painted black on a white background. The milestone has a quadrant plan with a domed top and features inscriptions indicating distances: "RB" for Rothbury at 27 miles and "H" for Hexham. The overall height of the milestone is 0.50 metre.
Local climate
Milestone Built Into Roadside Wall receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% 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.
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