Guide Post at Junction with Wigton Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 July 1986. Guide-post.
Guide Post at Junction with Wigton Lane
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-pilaster-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Leeds North East MP: Fabian Hamilton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 July 1986
- Type
- Guide-post
- Address
- Guide Post at Junction with Wigton Lane, Wike Ridge Lane, Harewood
- OS grid reference
- SE 329 402
- Coordinates
- 53.85776, -1.50056
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The guide-post at the junction with Wigton Lane is likely from the mid-19th century. It is a square monolith made of roughly-dressed stone, featuring two cast-iron plaques set into the east and south faces. The plaques have raised letters and pointing hands. The east face, which faces Wike Ridge Lane, reads: "TO LEEDS TO WIKE." The south face, which faces Wigton Lane, reads: "TO ALLWOODLEY GATES." Beneath the south plaque, there is a bench mark.
Local climate
Guide Post at Junction with Wigton Lane receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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