Guidepost at Four Lane End is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 December 1985. A 1870's Guidepost.
Guidepost at Four Lane End
- WRENN ID
- wild-cloister-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Runcorn and Helsby MP: Sarah Pochin (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 December 1985
- Type
- Guidepost
- Address
- Guidepost at Four Lane End, Four Lane Ends, Alvanley
- OS grid reference
- SJ 515 740
- Coordinates
- 53.26131, -2.72739
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The guidepost at Four Lane End is a cast iron structure, likely from the 1870s, created by W H Smith and Co. in Whitchurch, Shropshire. It features an octagonal shaft with a plinth and cap. The guidepost has square-ended cast iron plates displaying raised sans-serif capital letters indicating distances to various locations: Helsby 2 Alvanley 1 1/2; Mouldsworth 2 Chester 11; Liverpool Hospital Kingswood 3 (with an added plate for Crossley Hospital Kingswood); and Frodsham 3. The guidepost is topped with a ball finial and stands at approximately 2 meters tall.
Local climate
Guidepost at Four Lane End receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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