Milestone Opposite North Road Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Milestone.
Milestone Opposite North Road Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- leaning-arch-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Milestone
- Address
- Milestone Opposite North Road Farmhouse, Old North Road, Shingay Cum Wendy
- OS grid reference
- TL 334 481
- Coordinates
- 52.11591, -0.053
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Milestone opposite North Road Farmhouse, dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century. It is made of limestone and features a bull nose top. The milestone is inscribed and painted black with the following text: 'WENDY, ROYSTON 5, CAXTON 7'. This milestone is part of a series and is the 43rd milestone from Shoreditch church.
Local climate
Milestone Opposite North Road Farmhouse 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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 0.3°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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