Guidepost at Ngr 496 486 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 at Ngr 496 486
- WRENN ID
- rusted-steel-auburn
- 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 at Ngr 496 486, Ebnal Lane, Malpas
- OS grid reference
- SJ 496 486
- Coordinates
- 53.03254, -2.75273
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This guidepost, likely from the 1870s, is made of cast iron and features an octagonal shaft. It has "CCC" embossed in ornate letters on a raised shield. There are plates with raised margins and pecked corners that direct to MALPAS and CHESTER: NO MAN'S HEATH, although the MALPAS STATION direction has been painted out. The guidepost is topped with a ball finial and remains undamaged.
Local climate
Guidepost at Ngr 496 486 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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