Milestone on East Verge of Road and Adjoining the Garden of Numbers 33 and 35 is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. Milestone.
Milestone on East Verge of Road and Adjoining the Garden of Numbers 33 and 35
- WRENN ID
- white-storey-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- Milestone
- OS grid reference
- TL 786 328
- Coordinates
- 51.96564, 0.59895
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Milestone located on the east verge of the road, next to the garden of numbers 33 and 35. This 18th-century milestone has a diamond shape, with the top of the west face halved to create a panel that is inscribed with "London 46." The lower left and right panels are inscribed with "Braintree" and "Sible Hedingham 2" as well as "Castle Hedingham 2" and "Sible Hedingham." One panel on the rear is blank, while the other is inscribed with "47 to London." This milestone is one of only two remaining on the Gosfield to Castle Hedingham Road.
Local climate
Milestone on East Verge of Road and Adjoining the Garden of Numbers 33 and 35 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% 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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