Whipping Post Approximately 8 Metres South of No 1 Spa Hill (The Old Police Station) is a Grade II listed building in the North Lincolnshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 March 1985. Whipping post.
Whipping Post Approximately 8 Metres South of No 1 Spa Hill (The Old Police Station)
- WRENN ID
- strange-chamber-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Lincolnshire
- Constituency
- Scunthorpe MP: Sir Nicholas Dakin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1985
- Type
- Whipping post
- OS grid reference
- SK 936 987
- Coordinates
- 53.47716, -0.59034
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Whipping Post, located approximately 8 metres south of No 1 Spa Hill (The Old Police Station), is a 20th-century replacement timber post featuring 18th-century wrought-iron fittings. The square post stands 2 metres high and is topped with a pyramidal lead cap. It has six iron arm-shackles, arranged in three pairs, stapled onto three sides.
Local climate
Whipping Post Approximately 8 Metres South of No 1 Spa Hill (The Old Police Station) receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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