Old Guide Post at Junction with Stores Hall Road is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 1984. Guide post.
Old Guide Post at Junction with Stores Hall Road
- WRENN ID
- ghost-lead-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Ossett and Denby Dale MP: Jade Botterill (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 May 1984
- Type
- Guide post
- Address
- Old Guide Post at Junction with Stores Hall Road, Farnley Road, Kirkburton
- OS grid reference
- SE 174 120
- Coordinates
- 53.605, -1.73778
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Guide Post at the junction with Storthes Hall Road is a guide post dated 1861. It is a square stone post topped with a dome. The post features inscriptions in capital letters on two faces, indicating directions: "TO KIRKBURTON," "TO FARNLEY," "TO JOHN," "TO BOTTOMLEY," and "THURSTONLAND," along with the word "SURVEYOR" and the date "1861." Each inscription is accompanied by a stylised hand pointing in the respective direction.
Local climate
Old Guide Post at Junction with Stores Hall Road receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% 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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