Coal Taxpost Outside La Babe is a Grade II listed building in the Bromley local planning authority area, England. Taxpost.
Coal Taxpost Outside La Babe
- WRENN ID
- other-rafter-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bromley
- Constituency
- Orpington MP: Gareth Bacon (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Taxpost
- Address
- Coal Taxpost Outside La Babe, Single Street
- OS grid reference
- TQ 435 600
- Coordinates
- 51.32111, 0.05839
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Coal Taxpost outside La Babe is a cast iron structure dating from 1861. It has a square shape with chamfered sides and moulded caps, and it features a shield from the City's Arms. This taxpost is classified as No 188 type 2 in "The Coal Duties of the City of London and their Boundary Marks" published in 1972.
Local climate
Coal Taxpost Outside La Babe receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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