Guide Post on South Side of Junction with Bell Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1968. Guide post.
Guide Post on South Side of Junction with Bell Lane
- WRENN ID
- proud-wattle-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Normanton and Hemsworth MP: Jon Trickett (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1968
- Type
- Guide post
- Address
- Guide Post on South Side of Junction with Bell Lane, Barnsley Road, Ackworth
- OS grid reference
- SE 438 164
- Coordinates
- 53.64317, -1.33753
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The guide post located on the south side of the junction with Bell Lane in Ackworth Moor Top is an early 19th-century structure made of sandstone. It features a three-stage semicircular base and a tapered column that stands approximately 3 meters high. The column has a flat back and a conical cap. Near the bottom of the column, there are coupled recessed panels that are inscribed with the names "Hemsworth Wragby" and "Sheffield Wakefield."
Local climate
Guide Post on South Side of Junction with Bell Lane receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2008
- No related consent applications matched
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