Milestone at Junction of Lower Terrace and Hampstead Grove is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1974. Milestone.
Milestone at Junction of Lower Terrace and Hampstead Grove
- WRENN ID
- western-balcony-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Hampstead and Highgate MP: Tulip Siddiq (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1974
- Type
- Milestone
- OS grid reference
- TQ 262 862
- Coordinates
- 51.561, -0.17971
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Milestone located at the junction of Lower Terrace and Hampstead Grove, dating from the 18th century. It is a rectangular pillar made of Portland stone, with the inscription "IV miles from St. Giles's Pound" on the south face and "4 1/2 miles .... yds from Holborn Bars" on the east face. The nearby Whitestone Pond is named after this milestone.
Local climate
Milestone at Junction of Lower Terrace and Hampstead Grove 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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