Coal Duty Marker at Junction with Well Road is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1983. Marker.
Coal Duty Marker at Junction with Well Road
- WRENN ID
- rusted-joist-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield MP: Andrew Lewin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1983
- Type
- Marker
- Address
- Coal Duty Marker at Junction with Well Road, the Ridgeway, Northaw and Cuffley
- OS grid reference
- TL 270 034
- Coordinates
- 51.71515, -0.16174
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Coal Duty Marker at the junction with Well Road is a Grade II listed structure from 1861, cast by Henry Crissell in London. This marker indicates the extent of coal duty, which extends 20 miles from the General Post Office. It is a cast iron square pier that stands one and a half metres high, featuring chamfered corners and a pyramid top. The necking of the pier displays the City of London crest, and there is a plaque beneath it that reads: 'Act 24 and 25 Vict Cap 42'.
Local climate
Coal Duty Marker at Junction with Well Road sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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