Guidepost is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1985. Guidepost.
Guidepost
- WRENN ID
- tenth-tower-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1985
- Type
- Guidepost
- Address
- Guidepost, Whitchurch Road (A5395), Malpas
- OS grid reference
- SJ 489 468
- Coordinates
- 53.01677, -2.76171
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This guidepost, likely dating from the 1870s, is made of cast iron and features an octagonal shaft. The shaft has "CCC" embossed in ornate letters on a raised shield. There are plates with raised margins and pecked corners that indicate directions to Malpas and Whitchurch in raised sans-serif capitals. Additionally, there is a renewed plate with a square end pointing to Oldcastle. The guidepost is topped with a ball finial.
Local climate
Guidepost receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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