Milestone Opposite Reception Office of Shipley Paint Company is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. Milestone.

Milestone Opposite Reception Office of Shipley Paint Company

WRENN ID
stranded-ember-magpie
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bradford
Constituency
Shipley MP: Anna Dixon (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 October 1985
Type
Milestone
Address
Milestone Opposite Reception Office of Shipley Paint Company, Otley Road, Baildon
OS grid reference
SE 158 385
Coordinates
53.84337, -1.76118
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a milestone located opposite the reception office of Shipley Paint Company on Otley Road in Baildon. It dates from the early to mid-19th century and is made of roughly dressed stone, shaped like a triangle in section. The lettering on the milestone is incised and painted, indicating distances to Otley and Bradford: "TO OTLEY 8 MILES" on the left face and "TO BRADFORD 4 MILES" on the right face.

Local climate

Milestone Opposite Reception Office of Shipley Paint Company sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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