Guide Post Guide Post on Eastern Verge is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 March 1987. Guide post.
Guide Post Guide Post on Eastern Verge
- WRENN ID
- hollow-transept-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Clacton MP: Nigel Farage (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 March 1987
- Type
- Guide post
- Address
- Guide Post Guide Post on Eastern Verge, Church Road, Frating
- OS grid reference
- TM 076 232
- Coordinates
- 51.8692, 1.01537
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This guide post, located on the eastern verge at the junction of Frating Hill and Church Road, dates from the late 19th century and is made of cast iron. It was produced by the Maldon Ironworks. The tall post features a flat semi-circular finial that reads "Parish of Frating. E.C.C. Stick no bills." An arm attached to the post indicates directions and distances to Frating Church (¾ mile), Thorrington Station (2 miles), Great Bentley (2¾ miles), and Brightlingsea (5 miles).
Local climate
Guide Post Guide Post on Eastern Verge sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 sale records on file
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