Guide Post at Junction with Hardwick Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 October 1987. Guide post.
Guide Post at Junction with Hardwick Lane
- WRENN ID
- patient-timber-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley MP: Yvette Cooper (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 October 1987
- Type
- Guide post
- Address
- Guide Post at Junction with Hardwick Lane, Moor Lane, Darrington
- OS grid reference
- SE 471 195
- Coordinates
- 53.67041, -1.28744
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The guide post at the junction with Hardwick Lane is a likely early 18th-century structure made of magnesian limestone. It is a small square post, approximately 38 centimeters on each side and 60 centimeters high. The post features inscriptions on at least three faces: the south side reads "Hardwic(k)" with the "k" eroded, the east side reads "Doncaste(r)" with the "r" eroded, and the north side is illegible.
Local climate
Guide Post at Junction with Hardwick Lane receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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