Milepost Between Numbers 10 and 12, on Opposite Side of Road is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 December 1986. Milepost.
Milepost Between Numbers 10 and 12, on Opposite Side of Road
- WRENN ID
- vacant-cellar-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 December 1986
- Type
- Milepost
- Address
- Milepost Between Numbers 10 and 12, on Opposite Side of Road, St Stephen's Hill
- OS grid reference
- TL 142 061
- Coordinates
- 51.74283, -0.34658
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a milepost located on St. Stephen's Hill, dating from around 1882. It is made of cast iron and is painted. The milepost has a triangular shape with an open back and a triangular top. The face of the milepost is chamfered. It features inscriptions on the top indicating a distance to Hatfield of 6 miles, and on the right side, distances to Watford of 7 miles and Reading of 44 miles. On the left side, it indicates a distance to St Albans of 1 mile.
Local climate
Milepost Between Numbers 10 and 12, on Opposite Side of Road 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 lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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