Milepost Approximately 50 Metres South of Corner House is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Milepost.
Milepost Approximately 50 Metres South of Corner House
- WRENN ID
- solemn-loft-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1987
- Type
- Milepost
- OS grid reference
- TM 042 342
- Coordinates
- 51.96938, 0.97234
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a milepost located approximately 50 metres south of Corner House in Stratford St Mary. It dates from 1831 and was made by J Garrett, an ironfounder. The milepost is made of cast iron, painted white, with black lettering in relief. It has a triangular shape with a round-arched back plate. The inscriptions indicate distances: to London 58 miles and to Ipswich 11 miles and Woodbridge 18 miles on the left side; to Colchester 7 miles and Chelmsford 29 miles on the right side. The milepost is marked with "J Garrett Ironfounder St Margarets Ipswich 1831."
Local climate
Milepost Approximately 50 Metres South of Corner House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 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 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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