Milestone outside Ravenstone Village Institute is a Grade II listed building in the North West Leicestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 2019. Milestone.
Milestone outside Ravenstone Village Institute
- WRENN ID
- long-railing-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North West Leicestershire
- Constituency
- North West Leicestershire MP: Amanda Hack (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 August 2019
- Type
- Milestone
- Address
- Milestone outside Ravenstone Village Institute, Leicester Road, Coalville, Ravenstone with Snibstone, LE67 2AQ
- OS grid reference
- SK 407 136
- Coordinates
- 52.71882, -1.39856
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The milestone located outside Ravenstone Village Institute is positioned on the former Ashby to Leicester turnpike road and is likely from the 18th century, with an iron plate added in the 19th century.
This milestone is made of stone and features a cast-iron plate. It stands on the south side of Leicester Road and consists of a stone slab with a rounded top, topped by the cast-iron plate. The plate is painted black, with raised lettering in white that reads: TO/ ASHBY/ DELAZOUCH/ 4/ TO/ LEICESTER/ 13. Additionally, a triangulation benchmark is inscribed into the face of the milestone below the plate.
Local climate
Milestone outside Ravenstone Village Institute sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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