Milestone in Garden Wall to Number 34 is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Milestone. 1 related planning application.
Milestone in Garden Wall to Number 34
- WRENN ID
- buried-rotunda-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Milestone
- Address
- Milestone in Garden Wall to Number 34, Mill Street, Gamlingay, SG19 3JW
- OS grid reference
- TL 237 521
- Coordinates
- 52.15355, -0.19269
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The milestone located in the garden wall of number 34 on Mill Street in Gamlingay dates from the 19th century. It is made of stone, painted white with black lettering, and features a shaped top. The inscriptions read "Gamlingay", "St Ives 14 miles", and "Potton 2 miles". This milestone is part of the turnpike road that connected Bury (Huntingdonshire) to Stratton Park (Bedfordshire), which was established in 1755.
Local climate
Milestone in Garden Wall to Number 34 sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.4°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 — 8 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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